Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This added up to a greater sweep (81 seats in the House, eight in the Senate, eleven Governorships ) than Democrats executed in 1930 when they won 55 new seats in Congress preparatory to turning out Herbert Hoover two years later. It was the greatest Congressional turnover since 1894, when the Democrats lost 116 seats midway of President Cleveland's second term. All this accomplishment left Republicans very definitely a minority party. Their chief triumph was that they were proved not extinct...
...machine behind Senator Van Nuys and in Illinois the Horner machine, allied for the emergency with the Chicago juggernaut of Mayor Kelly & Boss Nash behind Representative Scott Lucas, overrode farmer discontent. In Nebraska only Governor Cochran, who publicized his State's economy and low taxes, survived a Republican sweep. In Iowa, Governor Kraschel was pitchforked out by 40,000 votes, mostly corn farmers'. In Kansas, the sentiment of wheat farmers was even more plain. Said Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace: "The outstanding conclusion ... is that people do not like business depressions.... The new Congressmen will probably be correct...
yard end' sweep from his own 20-yard stripe, but he fumbled, and so no dice...
Perhaps it all started when the Vagabond read a candidate's campaign promise that he "would live up to the ideals of 'Veritas'." And all at once the Vagabond felt a blind fury sweep over him as he realized that it had come to this, that the ideal for which men had crossed the ocean, faced hunger, pestilence, and every sort of privation and danger, had now become a cheap symbol to be handed about at election rallies...
...handful of rice, an occasional potato or orange, rancid olive oil, no sugar, mudlike coffee, little meat. Trees have been cut down, furniture broken up, destroyed houses and buildings whittled away to provide fuel for an undernourished population that feels now more than ever the wintry blasts that sweep down from the Guadarrama Mountains...