Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In President Roosevelt's hands last week lay the power to fill 20 new Federal judgeships, one of the biggest single batches ever.*In the President's files were endorsements for 223 candidates for these vacancies -important political ammunition in an election year. And while the President studied...
New Dealism was no issue between Senator Robert Rice Reynolds and Representative Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. in their primary contest last week, tantamount to election, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination in North Carolina. Personality and geography won by 92,000 for playful Senator Reynolds. As is customary, the State will...
A onetime Republican, Victor Christgau deserted that party after he was defeated for re-election to Congress in the 1932 primaries, turned up in Washington as an assistant administrator of AAA, where he lasted until Administrator Chester Davis' famed "purge" of radicals two years later. Victor Christgau was next...
Hospitalized in New York, Administrator Hopkins did not answer either Mr. Christgau or his charges. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Carl A. Hatch urged the Christgau ouster as another argument for an amendment to the Lend-Spend Bill (see p. 11) to bar WPA personnel from "interfering with an...
Compromise came last week in the I. L. O. elections when Mr. Phelan withdrew, accepted the deputy directorship, paved the way for the election of Mr. Winant. Japanese Delegate Juitsu Kitaoka, annoyed at reports he opposed an American director, pulled for the winner.