Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dear friend: I wish it lay in my power to talk with you face to face on the eve of one of the most critical conventions that our party has ever held. . . . I appreciate the high honor. . . . I am a progressive in deed as well as in word in the truest and most Democratic sense. We are in a safe majority . . . if we stand together. . . . I hope history will point to your wise action at Chicago. . . . I shall welcome any suggestions you may have to make and I hope to see you in person very soon. Please accept my assurance...
Roosevelt Week. No less active on the eve of the convention were Governor Roosevelt and his aides. James A. Farley, Roosevelt preconvention manager, turned up early in Chicago where he began dangling vice-presidential bait before lesser candidates. He hired the presidential suite at the Congress Hotel. Would Candidate Roosevelt go to Chicago, appear before a deadlocked convention to win the nomination? At Albany the Governor laughed, talked of "hot weather reports," would not say yes or no. John E. Mack, Poughkeepsie Democrat, onetime State Supreme Court justice, was selected as the Roosevelt nominator...
...United Repeal Council, mightiest Wet body yet to be washed up by the anti-Prohibition groundswell. Chosen chairman of the Council, which claims to represent a membership of 2,500,000 citizens, was Pierre Samuel du Pont. The Council decided to hold a mass meeting in Chicago on the eve of the Republican National Convention, after which it will go about trying to get the 18th Amendment out of the Constitution just as Prohibitionists went about putting it in-by the slow process of electing public officials favorable to their cause. "I hope Mr. Rockefeller will take an active part...
...Lang is right! Lang is right!" chanted 200,000 Laborite paraders in Sydney last week on election eve. Big, square-jawed John Thomas Lang, ousted from the Premiership of New South Wales last month by Governor Sir Philip Game (TIME, May 23), hoped that the issue of "British meddling" would return his Labor Party to power in the new Legislative Assembly, give him back the Premiership...
...takes us into the Burnt Over Counties of Upper New York sometime in the revivalistic nineteenth century; there are several seemingly authentic notes of the frontier scene, although the romantic elopement of the lovers, calling to my mind, for no apparent reason, the fleeing lovers of Keats' "St. Agnes Eve", somewhat vitiates the realistic elements...