Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Demagog into Dictator. When New Orleans Democrats went to the polls to select two Congressmen, a State Supreme Court judge and a Public Service commissioner, Senator Huey Pierce Long had mobilized Louisiana's entire national guard to insure a "clean election." He had also made his Legislature pass enough...
Ever since last spring, when the Long machine and the New Orleans "Old Regular" Democratic organization swore a battle to the death, alarmists had predicted that Canal Street would run red with blood on primary day. A frightened citizens' committee at the last moment persuaded Senator Long to confine...
In the matter of morals, manners and political methods voters were given little choice between the Long machine and the Walmsley machine. They took the former by slim but effective majorities. By crushing the "Old Regulars," which had not lost a New Orleans election in 50 years, Senator Long revenged...
New Dealers All. Each of Georgia's three candidates for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination swore that he and he alone was the one true friend of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. In spite of his parole profligacy and the fact that his State is one of the five...
South Carolina Run-Off. Another Democratic primary which was as good as an election was South Carolina's run-off between Olin D. Johnston and Coleman Livingston Blease for the governorship. Candidate Blease, an oldtime, free-style rabble-rouser who has managed to keep himself on the public payroll...