Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Fletcher looked over the map of the closing campaign, he could spot some hot but hopeless contests. To himself he must have admitted with a grim smile that the campaign, as a whole, was no contest...
California. Though he could take no credit for what had happened, Mr. Fletcher last week had good reason to hope that the Republicans would carry California. Senator Hiram Johnson was sure of reelection, but since the New Deal had adopted him as a Democrat that will be an empty triumph for the G. O. P. Republican Acting Governor Frank Merriam, too, had a good chance of reelection. A Literary Digest poll last week showed him leading Upton Sinclair, 2½-to-1. But there, again, such an outcome would be due, not to Republican headwork, but to the jettisoning...
...district of the Democratic State of Tennessee was Brazilla Carroll Reece, the Democratic National Committee sent him a cordial letter of endorsement. However, the first district is in the eastern, mountainous portion of the State; Candidate Reece happens to be a Republican Congressman. It was grim news to Mr. Fletcher. No blunders by his opponents could help him much...
Small wonder that as Chairman Fletcher surveyed this political scene last week he could see little semblance of a national contest between the Republican and Democatic parties. So far as was visible to the naked eye not one stone had been placed upon another to rebuild the House of the Elephant. This year the Republicans will regard it a triumph to carry Pennsylvania...
...altogether Mr. Fletcher's fault that his struggle with the New Deal is no contest. The Republican campaign chest was very bare. The National Committee reported collections of only $90,000, a deficit of $52,000. What cast G. O. Partisans down, though, was not this shortage of money but their opponents' unlimited wealth. To most Republican stumpsters the Democratic campaign chest this year is the U. S. Treasury. The New Deal has promised and paid over $2,000,000,000 in relief to some 4,000,000 families. It is distributing hundreds of millions to farmers under...