Word: reelection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through their waving wheat fields, North Dakota Republicans went to the polls last week to decide whether they would renominate (and thus virtually reelect) lean, jut-jawed Senator Gerald Prentice Nye, or send to Washington hulking, jut-jawed Governor William Langer instead. Senator Nye, once a "radical," now a learned apostle of Neutrality, has for twelve years been at the top of North Dakota's political heap. But Governor Langer (whom the Federal Government tried, and failed, to jail in 1934 for openly levying on Relief clients for his campaign funds), called a demagogue by his opponents, a champion...
...pertinent facts are that Mr. Everett Sanders, chairman of the National Committee, has resigned. His resignation carries a special implication. Mr. Sanders was the chairman who conducted the campaign to reelect Mr. Hoover in 1932. Previous to that he had been private secretary to President Coolidge. Mr. Sanders, retirement, therefore, is notice that there is no disposition on the part of elements hither to dominant in the party to keep control of the organization. Mr. Sanders' resignation amounts to an announcement of hands off and an open field...
...Fussy little Chairman Simeon Davison Fess of the Republican National Committee officially keynoted the party's autumn campaigns. His objects were three: to insure Republican success in scattered municipal, State and Congressional elections (notably those in Ohio and Wisconsin); to replenish the party war chest; to renominate and reelect President Hoover. The Fess keynote address appeared to be in the key of C: no sharps, no flats, just straight eulogy of Republicanism and straight condemnation of its opponents...