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November 19, 1932
Fiction
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The landslide [ABSTRACT]
- A new anthology of Hope, Compiled from newspaper reports the morning after the Democratic victory at the polls... Various excerpts collected from different newspaper about the election, candidates, etc…
November 24, 1975
The Talk of the Town
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Two Gatherings [ABSTRACT]
- Talk story about party given by the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee. The main speaker was Sweden's Prime Minister, Olof Palme. Mr. Palme talked about the new program of the Swedish Social Democratic Party which has been in power since 1932. He also feels that many Socialists are returning to the…
April 04, 1931
The Talk of the Town
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"Skullduggery" [ABSTRACT]
- Nine year old boy made his father promise never to vote for a Democratic president because he'd heard that if one was elected there would be school on Saturdays too…
February 17, 1992
Comment
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Comment, Part II [ABSTRACT]
- Comment about the possible Presidential candidacy of Unnamed Democrat, who writer describes in detail. A N.Y. "Times" /CBS News poll shows an unnamed Democrat beating President Bush. No named Democrat can make that statement. Fantastic! Why not elect Unnamed Democrat? Writer tells about Unnamed Democrat: He has three children, and…
March 03, 1928
The Talk of the Town
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"More Reliable Source" [ABSTRACT]
- A man, who dabbles in politics, reports what he considers definite proof that the Democratic Party is dominated by Tammany. Desiring to learn the date of the Democratic National Convention, he called up the National Democratic Club in this city. The voice on the other end of the wire answered…
August 12, 1996
Comment
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Unceremony [ABSTRACT]
- Signed comment about the history of political conventions. August is the month of America's national party conventions, and you can almost feel the excitement ebbing. For never in their long and varied history have the conventions been as unimportant as they are today. The usual explanations for their decline--that…
August 25, 1980
Comment
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Comment [ABSTRACT]
- Comment on the visitors at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. The people who came to town and the people who live here seemed to have a lot more in common than any of us had realized four years ago during the 1976 convention. Since then, the city has reinforced its…
July 22, 1972
Comment
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Comment [ABSTRACT]
- Comment on the just-held National Democratic Convention at which Sen. George McGovern was nominated as the Presidential candidate and at which many new delegates were present. An interview with an aide to Sen. McGovern, Richard Stearns, on the night of McGovern's victory caught the mood of the convention. It…
October 08, 1932
The Talk of the Town
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"Sonny into Mr." [ABSTRACT]
- Cornelius Whitney is running for Congress on the Democratic ticket. Article describes a day's route of speech making over Long Island. He travels from speech-point to speech-point in a Packard touring car, accompanied by Mrs. Whiteny and former Mayor Dalton of Long Beach. They usually start from the…
July 16, 1932
A Reporter at Large
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Boss Hague, The Bandwagon and Beer [ABSTRACT]
- Describes the effect brought about by Frank Hague, the Democratic boss and Mayor of Jersey City who turned the Democratic convention upside down. He ruined the majority program and came within an eyelash of beating Roosevelt. The whole-hearted wets of the Hague-Smith group, having shattered the nerves of…