Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year three of President Roosevelt's New Deal friends are up for re-election to the Senate: Republican Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, Republican Hiram Johnson of California, Progressive Robert La Follette of Wisconsin. Last January the President publicly announced that he favored Senator Johnson's reelection...
2) "[When] we capture a Parliamentary majority in the next election, we will certainly confer upon the Government the complete power of action which we believe necessary. This is not tyranny because Parliament will be able to dismiss the Government by a vote of censure if it abuses that power...
M. Tardieu called M. Chautemps a liar, an associate of criminals and a forger. He charged him with forging the stub of a Stavisky check for 300,000 francs to make it appear that this sum had been paid to a person called "Tardi," promptly assumed by the Left Press...
Now in San Francisco the country had a wolf indeed. Into Mayor Rossi's office hurried five other Bay city mayors. Sixty thousand of their 1,200,000 citizens had laid down their tools, left their jobs. Like New York's Mayor LaGuardia, conscientious Mayor Rossi is of Italian parentage...
*Senator Thomas chose to ignore the fact that Senators and Representatives will not sit regularly again at the Capitol until after the November election when a new Congress will come into being.