Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true for his Cabinet. These first-rank appointees then help him fill up the lower grades in their respective departments. Next to be found are the 32 members of the Sub-Cabinet ranging from the Undersecretary of State to the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor. A clean sweep in the foreign service requires 15 new Ambassadors. 42 new Ministers. A new President must pick & choose until he gets men to serve him as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Commissioner of Customs, Comptroller of the Currency, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Director of the Mint, Director of the Budget, Director...
...vote last week at the end of what they feared had been a long, hard, losing fight to re-elect Herbert Hoover. The betting odds were 5-to-1 against their President and candidate. Expert political newshawks on one Republican newspaper after another could see nothing but a Roosevelt sweep ahead. As if in a final gesture of desperation the President had dashed across the continent to add in person one more much-needed vote to his California total. Two million good Republican dollars had been poured into what looked like a fruitless campaign. Wall Street, Eastern Industry and Society...
While one or two states that it was anticipated would go for the Democrats have showed Hoover margins in scattered returns it seemed likely that the New York governor would sweep the country by a greater electoral margin than was accorded to President Wilson...
...clock every man is in ranks in the area to stand reveille. After the roll has been called, the ranks dissolve, the cadein rush back to their rooms, make their beds, sweep the floor, shave, and dress for breakfast. At six-twenty another bell rings for Police Call, when one First Classman (a senior) in each division inspects every room to see that the beds are made and the floor swept. At six-thirty the cadets again form in ranks and march to Washington Hall for breakfast...
...predicted the outcome with never more than a 5% error in the total vote. Each time the victorious G. O. P. accepted the poll at full value, hailed it as accurate, authoritative. This year the Digest's canvass of some 20 million citizens points strongly to a Democratic sweep. Last week the vote stood 1,095,274 for Hoover, 1,648,237 for Roosevelt who was carrying 41 States (see map p. 13). The Hearst poll, smaller but in the past even more accurate, confirmed this drift against President Hoover, gave him 181 electoral votes...