Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As first returns began coming in, Candidate Camp ran a pathetic third. Swooping along in first place with the votes of his farmer friends, to whom he had promised "40 acres and a mule," was wild-eyed, unbrushed, gallus-snapping Eugene Talmadge, former (1933-37) Governor. In second place by...
Policeman Thomas Henry Leary of Cambridge, Mass., a political clown well above average in his humor, last week wound up his campaign ("Be Wary of Leary") to avoid election as a delegate to the State Democratic Convention (TIME, Sept. 19), by ringing doorbells at dead of night, begging irate voters...
With danger of another World War desperately acute, and the chances good that part of it would sooner or later be fought upon Polish soil by the armies of Germany and Russia, the Warsaw Government abruptly dissolved Parliament last week and called an election for November 6.
Most of the political parties and 60% of Poles entitled to vote boycotted the last election in 1935, because the "Polish Republic" is a mere façade for Army Dictatorship, although technically under the Constitution dictatorial powers are vested in a civilian professor of chemistry, President Ignacy Moscicki. Army...
After the district leaders came 38,000 children who piped ecstatically, "We thank our Führer" after a speech in which he told them: "When Providence takes me from my people I will hand to the next Führer a country welded by iron bonds." A bit more...