Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today a nation-wide campaign starts to raise "a million dollars for a million books for a million men." It is to continue throughout what has been dubbed Camp Library Week. The Library War Council appointed by the Secretary of War intends to erect a comfortable library and fill it with good books at each of the thirty-two cantonments and the numerous training camps. This short explanation of the Council's aim is enough in itself. We need bestow no elaborate praise on so worthy a motive for raising money, since he who wrote "We may live without books...
Besides a Library War Council appointed by Secretary Baker, which has the raising of this fund in hand, the campaign in each State will be supervised by a state War Council, composed of leading men and women in all sections. Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank of New York, is chairman of the National Library Council...
Hardly had the week for the campaign been chosen when Governors fell into line from every corner of the country. Among the first to respond was Governor James Withcombe, of Oregon, and shortly after his enthusiastic endorsement came a message from Governor Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi. Governor T. W. Bickett, of North Carolina, was among the first to respond, and Governor Simon Bamberger, of Utah, and Governor Lynn J. Frazier, of North Dakota. "I will issue a proclamation for Soldiers' Library Week at once," they wired...
Colonel Azan was born in 1874 and received his military education at St. Cyr. In the second Algerian campaign he was a second lieutenant of Zouaves. He has served in the general headquarters of the Ministry of war, and on historical missions in Germany and Spain in 1905 and 1906. From 1906 to 1909 he was in Morocco as captain under Generals Liautey and d'Amade...
...undergraduate Bond Committee of the University has redoubled its efforts within the last few days to help swell the total of subscribers who are members of the University. The campaign will close today...