Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Candidate Frank Gannett saved the day by importing three live elephants, marched them incessantly through the streets. Senator Robert A. Taft also had elephants (of papier-mache): one in the quiet dignity of his ballroom headquarters at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, two perched on the marquee outside. Candidate Taft also had 100 rooms for his staff and the support of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who said, in her best Alice-blue style, "The Willkie campaign comes right from the grass roots of every country club in America...
...Both Messrs. Taft and Gannett showed campaign movies, but found few takers for such 16 mm. cinema. Of the ten candidates, only Mr. Gannett, a Dry who will not accept beer advertising in his 17 newspapers, formally served free liquor to callers. Only Mr. Gannett hung the hotel lobby and the uncomplaining streets with 15-foot portraits of himself, in color...
...song like Landon's Oh! Susanna or Roosevelt's Happy Days Are Here Again rocked Philadelphia's vast, egg-shaped Convention Hall. Slogans were as uninspiring as the candidates they sought to tout-slogans like "Trust-in-Taft," "A Top Scholar-Taft," "Do It With Dewey," "Gannett-America's Best Bet," and Vandenberg's labels on yellow fans, which came in handy in the hot Convention Hall-"Fan with...
...Dying was the fear that indispensable moves f o ; U. S. defense were warmongering emotionalism: in Portland, Ore., Republican Presidential Candidate Frank Gannett condemned the present...
...About like this: Arthur James, 72; Arthur Vandenberg, 67; Herbert Hoover, 44; Hanford MacNider, 33; Wendell Willkie, 26; Frank Gannett, 24; Styles Bridges, 24; Joe Martin, 20; Arthur Capper, 18; Raymond Baldwin, 16; Charles McNary, 10; Hamilton Fish, 2; unknown...