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Word: swing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cuba's croupiers made notes on their calendars last week. Harbinger of the tourist season was a Government announcement that gambling at the Gran Casino Nacional will start December 29. horse-racing at Oriental Park January 21. The open season for Cuban assassinations was meanwhile in full swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Open Season | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...general election must come soon in England. Whether the outcome will fulfill Henderson's prophecies of evil for Labor is doubtful. In view of the general swing to the right, it is quite possible that the English people will decisively reject socialism as a panacea for its ills, in which case the defeated can console themselves with the assurance that their time will come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIS MAJESTY'S OPPOSITION | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...order to accomplish this, however, he would have to win 11 doubtful states and eight normally Republican states. The results of the Congressional and gubernatorial elections of 1930 show that a swing to the Democratic Party is not improbable in this region. Colorado turned in that direction by electing its governor and a senator from that party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Herring Sees Roosevelt in White House if Forecasts Indicate Political Sentiment--Democrats Must Secure Floating Votes | 10/4/1932 | See Source »

...support of Walsh in Montana, of Cutting in New Mexico, of Norris in Nebraska will undoubtedly swing more voters to the Roosevelt bandwagon. Similar indications can be discovered in the 1930 election returns from other western states...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Herring Sees Roosevelt in White House if Forecasts Indicate Political Sentiment--Democrats Must Secure Floating Votes | 10/4/1932 | See Source »

Roosevelt visitors at the Biltmore Hotel included Publishers William Randolph Hearst, Robert Paine Scripps, Bernarr Macfadden. The Hearst and Macfadden press are already behind the Democratic nominee. The Scripps-Howard papers are expected to swing over momentarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Dealer | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

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