Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he is standing for office, the week before election is a frantic period for any President. In off-years when he is not standing for office, that week is full of troublesome chores. Last week with his mind already on this winter's problems-including railroad legislation, national...
Speaking as "a citizen of New York" from his "own fireside" at Hyde Park he broadcast a pre-election appeal. Its theme was: "Social or economic gain made by one administration may and often does evaporate into thin air under the next. . . . We have to have reasonable continuity in liberal...
With his election duties thus disposed of President Roosevelt turned to consider matters that he knew would matter more as soon as this week's election was over. No. 1 was national rearmament. While his aides discussed a separate "Emergency budget" for defense; an air fleet of 10,000...
"The magnitude of Republican gains may surprise political observers still under the spell of the Roosevelt victory of 1936," the professor stated, "but should not be interpreted either as an unqualified rebuke to the Roosevelt leadership of the Democratic party or sure augury of greater Republican successes in 1940." Gains...
Holcombe was silent on whether the election might force President Roosevelt to seek a third term under a new banner. He did say, however: "The defeat of Governor Lafayette in Wisconsin means that the next move in third party maneuvers is up to Mayer LaGuardis of New York."