Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a magician could have performed the feat that Harry Truman blithely promised the voters in his election campaign last fall. The President told farmers he would keep up their sky-high farm prices and he pledged consumers a painless cost of living. The man Harry Truman picked to do...
Life was simple and uncomplicated in the dairyland village of Bonduel, Wis., and the oldtimers wanted to keep it that way. They saved their money, got along without movies, debated the state of the world at daily card games in the town's nine taverns. At every spring election...
From the first, District 50's tactics were highhanded. They would not go into an election to find out whether the U.M.W. represented anybody at all. They counted not so much on their actual strength as the fear they could stir up. New Yorkers well remembered the 1934 cab...
Politicians, hangers-on and reporters crowded into the smoke-filled city clerk's office in Jersey City. They were all assembled for a little democratic ritual. Twenty-five cops, loyal subjects of Boss Frank Hague, hovered around the old grey City Hall. Inside, Deputy City Clerk Ben Rosengard grasped...
"Clapham's Gone!" Before the day, it had looked like a routine county council election. Laborite politicos were confident that victory was in the bag. Three years before, Labor had won 90 council seats out of 124, the Conservatives only 30. As the day wore on, party headquarters in...