Word: electioneers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
It all began some years ago when Indianapolis welcomed the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan brought gutter politics. Last month Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis was found guilty of corrupt office-getting in his 1925 election. The City Council asked him to resign. He refused, and appointed his wife...
"I was telling him," said Senator Fess, "that I was more convinced than ever that the people of the country would demand his re-election so strongly that the party could not think of nominating anyone else and he could not refuse to accept the inevitable, regardless of his personal...
Liberal publicists were splenetic last fortnight over the presence in Washington of the Nicaraguan generalissimo, Emiliano Chamorro. A presidential election impends in Nicaragua. General Chamorro wanted to find out how the U. S. Department of State would view his candidacy. U. S. citizens who regard U. S. intervention in Latin...
During the War, along with Eugene Victor Debs, Victor L. Berger was sentenced to prison under the Espionage Act. Congress refused to admit him after his re-election in 1918, and again after another re-election in 1919. In 1923, Milwaukeeans sent him to Washington once more. This time he...
Enough, however, of irony has been heaped on his unfortunate head. He is, after all, only fulfilling his election promise--to keep Chicago from the clutches of King George--and it is time that some of the ridicule descended on the voters of America's second city who elected him...