Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telling each other that Frank Knox would make a good nominee in 1936, and that made a good story for reporters covering the affairs. In a national poll of young Republicans and old Republican county chairmen and city leaders conducted last summer and again in a recent poll of precinct committeemen in Iowa, two men were overwhelmingly favored for the Presidential nomination. No. 2 man on each poll was Frank Knox. No. i man was William Edgar Borah. But Mr. Borah is a man more likely to get a Republican Presidential nomination when it does not mean anything than when...
...even Joe Kennedy with his Olympian police powers cannot go forth within his precinct and command companies to borrow money that they do not need. All he can do, as he has done, is to make it easy for the honest. He has stumped the land proclaiming his credo: "No honest business need fear the SEC." He has been not only a good policeman, but also a polite one, insisting that all SEC subordinates be courteous and cooperative. Doing business is infinitely more difficult than before the New Deal but bankers now know that it can be done...
...Share-the-Wealth movement is divided into two parts. Part I is in Louisiana where Share-the-Wealth meetings are part of the regular curriculum of Boss Long's ward heelers. There are clubs, organized by his workers, in nearly every precinct or voting district. All jobholders and would-be jobholders are assembled in a shabby little house. They have nothing to lose and may have much to gain by joining. Orders are to elect as many officers as possible, so each club always has a president, several vice presidents, a secretary and many committee chairmen. Then some young...
...Judge Eugene 0. Sykes as an uncrowned commissioner walking beneath the stately elms that grow along the sidewalks of his native city, Aberdeen, trying to influence the voters in his own precinct against me, would have exhibited that measure of effectiveness only that is so often blurred by the tears that laughter brings...
These practical psychologists who know how to appeal to the mob that directs the destiny of the nation are not found in any one political camp but exist in every party, in every town, in every precinct. Tuesday's election as all previous elections have demonstrated the efficacy of slogans, dramatic oratory, and machine tactics. Can the youth that aspires to public office in the future battle these effectively? Some say they will use these means only as a way to gain a position in which they may promulgate the reforms that are so necessary. But it is a polluted...