Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey can make the Hines indictment stick, he will be the biggest Republican in New York. Accepted as final last week were Republican plans to "draft" him for the gubernatorial nomination at the party convention which meets September 28. This plum was originally contingent on Jimmy Hines's conviction but Republicans, convinced that the trial will not be finished before the convention, were reported willing to take the gamble. Result: Democratic leaders tried to persuade either Governor Herbert Lehman or Senator Robert Wagner to abandon his Senatorial campaign, and stand for Governor against Jimmy Hines's prosecutor...
...hayfield in lower Indiana, dotted with 29 blue-&-white striped tents, last week went 70,000 steamer clams, 4,250 milk-fed chickens, 900 watermelons, three truckloads of roasting corn, 60 chefs, 250 waiters, 36 bands, 8,200 personally invited Republicans from twelve States and 11,000 uninvited Republicans. Formal purpose of the occasion was to launch the Republican Congressional campaign of 1938. The host, who laid out $30,000 for the party, was buoyant Homer E. Capehart, "the daddy of the electric automatic phonograph," now vice president & sales director of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., after building up his own Capehart...
...main tent, when the eating was over, the orthodox Republican audience received orthodox Republican pabulum. Chief speakers were New York's Representative (former Senator) James W. Wadsworth and National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. Excerpts: Mr. Wadsworth-"Wherever we turn, we are confronted with Federal money, billions of it. It is used brazenly in tempting the States and their subordinate municipalities into acquiescence. To put it boldly, much of this tempting should be called bribery-the bribery of an unsuspecting people into acquiescence." Mr. Hamilton-"In less than four years Congress has appropriated for WPA use alone the gigantic...
...John Coolidge, 32, son of the 30th President, traveling passenger agent for the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., returned to his home in Orange, Conn. one day last week to find that his colleagues on the Grange Town Committee had delegated him to attend the Republican State Convention. Said John Coolidge: "I'll be glad to do whatever I can-locally-to keep the Republican party alive...
...baiting Dictator Metaxas, unable to lay his hands on the rebels, last week did the next best thing. He court-martialed the 42 leaders in absentia. Sentences: death for four, including former Minister of National Economy Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Greece's late Republican firebrand Eleutherios Venizelos; life imprisonment for three; one to 25 years' imprisonment for 35 others. As a special inducement the condemned men were informed that if they gave themselves up in a month they would have the right to appeal their sentences...