Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reach the people through the Press,* stumped each & every county in the State in person, won a great victory. Two years later the anti-Tillman faction sent its candidate out to dog the Governor around the State. Thus the custom developed of having all the candidates in a State-wide primary travel together, speak in the same place at the same time. This system is hard on office-seekers but easy on the voters who have to turn out only once to hear all the candidates. To enter such a Democratic primary, each & every candidate binds himself to obey...
...special primary to pick a successor to its other lately deceased Senator, Park Trammell. The choice was between onetime Governor Doyle Elam Carlton of Tampa, claiming the support of Florida's labor vote, and Charles Oscar Andrews, a onetime circuit judge, who had never made a State-wide campaign before and whose chances of victory were ridiculed by the Press. But Democrat Andrews not only had the endorsement of Florida's Convention of Townsend Clubs, but led all other candidates in his devotion to Townsendism. When the votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews had a neat majority...
...with the money, Harry Sessions, Rochester attorney, pleaded the dog's youthful playfulness. As crowds cheered and Idaho snored peacefully in packed Town Hall, the judge handed down his verdict: Defendant must be tied up for 27 months. While Idaho's footprint was sought by admirers far & wide, Father & Mother Breeze grumbled: "Pretty...
Hardly had Nominee Alf Landon's acceptance speech been broadcast (TIME, Aug. 3) than Franklin Roosevelt's ace political pressagent, Charles Michelson, began to plan to put this old political maxim into effect. For the occasion he arranged an hour's nation-wide radio hookup. For the job of demolishing Republican Landon he shrewdly picked six of the President's official inferiors and the Governor's official equals-six Democratic Governors, from six States geographically selected to enfilade Kansas from assorted distances and directions...
Except for his tenderly polite manner and the enthusiasm that bubbles in his R-less, drawing-room voice, he might be mistaken for a member of Harvard's famed Porcellian Club. He is "Dos" to a wide acquaintance, but he has few intimate friends. At parties he is famed for his polite but sudden departures, for leaving his hat in a special place by itself, so that he will not have to rummage for it when he makes his getaway. Sensitive of other people's feelings to the point of anguish, he will sometimes blurt out what...