Word: torchlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There would be last-minute appeals and a low blow or two, just before the bell. (This week Truman hinted that Dewey is a "front man" for fascism, and likened him to Hitler.) In an effort to inject some commotion, both parties revived the old-time torchlight procession. Harry Truman began the week with a monster rally in Chicago, where Boss Jake Arvey's minions kindled enough flame and fireworks to burn down the whole town. Tom Dewey, after another dash through the Midwest, would conclude his campaign at a Madison Square Garden rally which would be heralded...
Young Republicans will stage a torchlight rally tonight in the only big-scale windup of the local presidential campaign...
Radcliffe Wallacites will march with University students in a torchlight parade starting from Harvard Hall Monday at 5 p.m., Sheila Uris '50, president of the Annex Wallace Committee, announced yesterday that members of the organization will participate in the election eve procession...
...strange mixture of Northern Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. But by 1860, the dominant Republican sentiment, which has lasted down to the present, was clear. A poll of the Class of 1860 turned up nine Democrats, 23 Constitutional Unionists, and 74 Republicans. The Unionists held the College's first torchlight parade shortly before election that year, carrying signs such as "Bell (the party candidate) and the Belles, 1860, Harvard...
President Truman took his share of punishment too. A visit by candidate Dewey to Boston brought out both Harvard and Radcliffe students in a torchlight parade and cheering section at the Arena mass meeting, while Professor Charles R. Cherington attacked the Democratic party in his debate with Beer at a Politics Club meeting...