Word: farmerly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...While practicing law for such clients as Tacoma's Central Labor Council and the Port of Tacoma, Bone tried to clear the way for publicly owned utilities, using any political broom that came to hand. He has been a candidate on the Socialist, Triple Alliance, Farmer-Labor, Republican and Democratic tickets, a fact of which his opponents like to make capital...
...Bone won his first election, to the State Legislature, as a Farmer-Laborite. In 1928 he ran for the Republican nomination for Congress, losing, he says, because on election day the power mysteriously failed on Tacoma's privately owned streetcar line, keeping humble voters at home. In 1932 he beat conservative Lawyer Stephen F. Chadwick, present National Commander of the American Legion, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination...
...week played his familiar double role: half chief of the Democratic Party, half Chief Executive. As a partyman he flared angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see p. 8); sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark-skinned Publisher Robert Lee Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, supposed mentor of Pennsylvania...
...zaro Cárdenas, proletarian President of Mexico, last week published a decree confiscating 1,723 hectares (7 sq. mi.) of a ranch near El Aguaji belonging to farmer loving U. S. Representative William Lemke of North Dakota, candidate of the 1936 Union Party (Father Coughlin) for President...
Candidate Pedro Aquirre Cedra, 59, leader of the Radical party (which, like the Radical Socialist group in France, is nearer centre than left) made his money as a lawyer and farmer. In the election he was backed by a Popular Front of Radical, Socialist and Communist Parties, the first in South America...