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Word: electioneerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several professional politicians were politely cynical over Mr. Roosevelt's moralizing. Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton remembered occasions upon which Mr. Roosevelt had been glad to see parties scrambled: in Minnesota two years ago when the Democratic nominees for Governor and Senator were withdrawn by Jim Farley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Morality Lecture | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

When one-fifth of the people of the U. S. want to know where there's a covey of quail, or a good trout hole, who's had a baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL SERVICE: Post Offices on Wheels | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

¶ A provision was written into the new constitution requiring New York City to give up its system of election by proportional representation which, since its adoption last year, has proved a grave disadvantage to political machines.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: New Chapter | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Proud of his handiwork and mindful that the constitution he helped draft in 1915 was submitted and turned down mostly in one big lump, Mr. Smith last week urged his fellow delegates to split up the 1938 edition for submission to the people. Result: at next fall's election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: New Chapter | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius XI were reported last week to be more irritated with each other than they had been in years. Mme Geneviéve Tabouis, famed French liberal journalist, declared that Mussolini was infuriated because the Pope, in condemning Fascism's new anti-Semitic policies, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Deal | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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