Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy day was November 3, 1936 for a ruddy, 71-year-old Manchester, N. H. retired shoe manufacturer named Arthur Byron Jenks. That day Republican Jenks. running for his first political office, thought that he had beaten Democrat Alphonse Roy for Congress in New Hampshire's ist District by 550 votes. Less happy were many succeeding days as the Jenks-Roy contest shuttled back and forth in a tantalizing series of recounts (TIME, Dec. 7. 1936. et seq.). One count came out 51,679-to-51,679, first tie in a Congressional race in no years. Another gave Contestee...
Thus it was that when Iowa's votes were counted, it seemed to matter little that a lot of other candidates were nominated for a lot of other offices; that former Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson beat Representative Lloyd Thurston for the Republican nomination for Senator. Looming with a significance precisely equal to what others of other States might read into it was the Democratic Senatorial result: Gillette over Wearift by about 2-to-1. Three other Democratic candidates polled negligible votes...
...onetime Republican, Victor Christgau deserted that party after he was defeated for re-election to Congress in the 1932 primaries, turned up in Washington as an assistant administrator of AAA, where he lasted until Administrator Chester Davis' famed "purge" of radicals two years later. Victor Christgau was next given the $6,500 job of setting up WPA in his home State. Since 1935 he has administered $95,000,000 worth of Minnesota WPA projects in a manner not always acceptable to Elmer A. Benson. Their bitterest clash took place last winter, when Administrator Christgau refused to appropriate...
...Administrator Hopkins had offered him fortnight before. Minnesota's Farmer-Labor chieftains, said Mr. Christgau, wanted his job before the primary because there are only 17,759 Jobs on the State payroll but 60,000 on WPA. Candidate Petersen immediately took Mr. Christgau's part. So did Republican State Chairman W. M. Parker. So did three Democratic candidates for Governor, including U. S. District Attorney Victor Anderson, who had entered the race at the behest of James A. Farley and whose grumbling supporters could only conclude from the Christgau charges that Democrats Farley and Hopkins were working...
Reported backing lanky, softspoken, 49-year-old Candidate Winant was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Three times Republican Governor of New Hampshire, twice an assistant I. L. 0. director, Mr. Winant was appointed first chairman of the Social Security Board by Mr. Roosevelt. Later he resigned to defend the Social Security Act against Republican Candidate Alfred M. Landon's thrusts, actively campaigned for Democrat Roosevelt. Since August he has been at Geneva...