Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came I. P. U. election day. Fleshy, easygoing Senator Barkley of Kentucky prepared to settle the little matter in the privacy of his Library Committee Room. To his surprise, crowds of Congressmen flocked in. He hastily moved the meeting to a larger room, and then discovered what was...
Leader Barkley started counting the votes, saw what was happening, flushed, groped for words, Conceded the election, tried to laugh it off.
Of 274 members of the Baseball Writers Association who participated in the poll, 235 of them voted for Sisler. Collins, vice-president-treasurer of the Boston Red Sox, received 213 votes and the late Keeler of "hit 'em where they aint" fame barely squeezed in. He was picked by 207...
Central figure of The Great Man Votes is a broken-down Harvard professor who, at the death of his wife, gives way to drink and inertia. An accident of ward politics makes this picturesque bum of crucial importance in a municipal election. How this situation affects him and his lively...
He did. He grew up to own a plantation, fight under Longstreet in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, raid with Forrest, build railroads with a fellow Confederate veteran, Colonel Thurmond, after Appomattox. He fought duels, wrote a popular thriller, The White Rose of Memphis, which had sold 160...