Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leary of Cambridge, Mass., a political clown well above average in his humor, last week wound up his campaign ("Be Wary of Leary") to avoid election as a delegate to the State Democratic Convention (TIME, Sept. 19), by ringing doorbells at dead of night, begging irate voters not to vote for him. He reported his campaign expenditures: 20? for rotten tomatoes for boys to throw at a "Vote for Leary" sign; 5? for a false mustache to frighten babies. He vowed, if elected (which local observers last week predicted he would be), to campaign for lifting the old age pension...
Most of the political parties and 60% of Poles entitled to vote boycotted the last election in 1935, because the "Polish Republic" is a mere façade for Army Dictatorship, although technically under the Constitution dictatorial powers are vested in a civilian professor of chemistry, President Ignacy Moscicki. Army Strong Man Smigly-Rydz hopes he can now coax the boycotting parties back into making a show of national unity at the polls, but not of course into ousting the Army clique of which he is the head...
...this queer situation is the Peasant Party, which must step up and vote if the November 6th election is to mean "national unity." Peasant Party henchmen promptly announced that their minimum terms were Government pardon for their leader, famed, rustic Wincenty Witos, who was jailed under the dictatorship of Marshal Pilsudski in 1930, escaped and fled to Czechoslovakia. Warsaw reports failed to reveal whether Marshal Smigly-Rydz is yet ready to have Wincenty Witos pardoned, recalled that Polish reactionaries attempted the assassination of persons who some years ago proposed this pardon...
Grand Tour. They have, in fact, made the grand tour of Hollywood-Warner Bros., Paramount, United Artists, MGM. This assortment of alliances comes from their disliking to sign for more than a one-picture contract. Of their six pictures they, like the public, vote Love Me Tonight, with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, the best. There pours out of them an old familiar tale-of a Hollywood cockeyed, imbecile, exciting, exasperating. The medium: marvelous. The methods: terrible. "Music," they insist, "must be written for the camera. People can't just stand around and sing songs." For Rodgers, the usual...
...Senate, Hold that Co-ed shows him publicizing himself by lavishing money on State College, making its football team the best in the country. The rest of the picture divides its time between the brilliant comic improvisation of the greatest Hamlet of his era as a bibulous, backslapping, vote-getting genius and a painfully routine ro mance between a homespun football coach (George Murphy) and the Governor's amiable secretary (Marjorie Weaver). Typical shot: Gabby Harrigan, having agreed to let the outcome of his Senatorial race depend on the big game gloomily watching State's fabulously effective girl...