Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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New England. Maine has already voted Republican, with confusing pressure from the Townsend old-age pension element. Vermont, still Republican, can contribute only one piece of news to the election: if it should go Democratic it would signify that a fourth successive New Deal landslide had hit the nation. New...
U. S. Senators and candidates for the Senate last week got a letter from A.F. of L. President William Green. Subject: NLRB's Donald Wakefield Smith. Incumbents were informed that A.F. of L. opposes the reappointment of Mr. Smith to the Labor Board. Candidates were pointedly asked to state...
In Oxford last week came the first British by-election since Munich. Labor and Liberal candidates had withdrawn to better the chances of the anti-Chamberlain candidate, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 59, famed Master of Balliol College. Widely respected as a "Fabian Socialist," The Master of Balliol offered himself this time...
Chileans who fail to vote are black-listed as civic-duty dodgers and have to pay a 100-peso ($5) fine. Consequently, last week most of them turned out to vote in a typical South American election which picked a successor to stern, small-eyed President Arturo Alessandri Rodriguez, forbidden...
Candidate Pedro Aquirre Cedra, 59, leader of the Radical party (which, like the Radical Socialist group in France, is nearer centre than left) made his money as a lawyer and farmer. In the election he was backed by a Popular Front of Radical, Socialist and Communist Parties, the first in...