Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, even in competition with those of New York, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, Milwaukee's city government was distinguished for its laxity and corruption. In 1904-06 more than 200 Republican and Democratic officials were indicted for graft. In 1910 disgusted citizens put a whole Socialist slate into office, including 29-year-old Daniel Webster Hoan as city attorney...
...merger, effected last winter, with La Follette Progressives in a Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation, pledged to a ''production for use" program. By this deal Progressives are to support Socialists in Milwaukee; Socialists, who cast only about 10,000 votes outside Milwaukee County, will support a Federation slate composed chiefly of Progressives in State elections. First test of Federation effectiveness will come at Milwaukee's polls next week. For Mayor Hoan, who has made a more than local name for himself not only by his Milwaukee record but by his leadership in the U. S. Conference of Mayors...
California's newspapers were last week filled with accounts of strange political tribes: the Roosevelts, the Sinclairs, the McGroartys; the Hoovers, the Landons, the Borahs. The final hour was at hand to file slates of delegates for California's Presidential primaries to be held May 5. Shortly before it struck came a news flash from Topeka, Kans., bringing Governor Alfred Mossman Landon's last word: He would "neither approve nor repudiate" the slate of delegates named for him. It was followed by a flash from Washington. Senator William Edgar Borah, who, ever since the opening...
...Senator Borah had two advantages in Illinois: 1) He was born on a farm near Fairfield 70 years ago; 2) He had indirect support from the Chicago Tribune which cannot see the publisher of the rival Daily News in the White House. But Publisher Knox has virtually a complete slate of 57 would-be convention delegates in the field, whereas Senator Borah has only twelve. Illinois also conducts a separate statewide Presidential preference vote which is purely to advise the convention delegation. Conceivably Candidate Knox might win the delegation and still lose the preference primary to Candidate Borah...
Governor Landon, however, was harder to catch. Kansas selects its delegates by convention, has already instructed them for Landon. Into Nebraska, where Landon has strength, Borah plunged, hoping his rival would follow. The Kansas candidate stayed away. Fortnight ago, however, when a slate of Landon delegates was picked for California's primary, Borah petitions were placed in circulation within 24 hours...