Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First was the case of South Carolina. Franklin Roosevelt was ready for the returns which showed that he had failed to purge Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith (see p. 26). He had a double-barreled reply: 1) Secretary Steve Early announced that the President had privately predicted a Smith victory by...
Third, Franklin Roosevelt made haste to take up the case of Maryland before it was too late. To draw the sting from his opposition to conservative Democrats he permitted another direct quote explaining that he was acting on principle: "If there is a good liberal running on the Republican ticket...
"The leadership of the opposition is right now putting its full strength, in men and money, behind [Democratic primary] candidates in half a dozen States who have been most hostile to the things for which this Administration stands . . . not in a clean cut general election . . . but stealthily, within the councils...
A threat potentially more fearsome to gamblers, however, than State's Attorney Courtney-whose zeal, they guessed, would cool after election-was an archaic legal rattrap brought out and set last week by an irate Chicago matron in behalf of her son-in-law. Paragraph No. 330 (enacted in...
Dictator Stalin's veteran favorite, Lazar Kaganovich, big-nosed and brutally effective in driving Soviet bureaucrats to greater Five-Year Plan zeal was last week gazetted a Vice Premier. Thus was promoted a man who is one of the few remaining Old Bolshevik top-rank members of the Government...