Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of the Federation, Mrs. Hoover has called a conference of representatives of all schools, colleges, playgrounds, and recreational authorities to meet in Washington, April 6. Her plan for physical education for women is so promising that the War Department has indorsed it in pursuance of its campaign to reduce the high percentage of physical unfitness discovered...
...Thomas, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen; and Philip Snowden, socialist member of Parliament and author. All were accompanied by their wives. The Daily Herald, London radical journal, published angry letters from Laborites. One critic said: " Continuous association with our political opponents is likely to reduce our campaign in the House of Commons to the old sham fight between Tweedledum and Tweedledee which we have done so much to expose...
...fied in winter Eastward through Siberia; struck South across Inner and Outer Mongolia and into Thibet; retraced his steps, skirted--the Desert of Gobi, and finally reached Urga, the city of the Living Buddha. From Urga, which was also serving at the time as headquarters for Baron Ungern's campaign to stir up the ancient race of Jenghis Khan against the Bolsheviki, he made his way through Manchuria and thence to Peking and safety. It is the wildest sort of an Odyssey--the more powerful because of the deadly earnestness and precision with which it is told, and because...
...advertisement alone," Mr. Smith concluded, "gets only one-half of the results, the salesmen must do the rest by punishing the actual sale of the goods. We may think of the salesmen as the infantry and advertising as the artillery furnishing a barrage for every campaign of national importance...
...teachers assembled at Cleveland were emphatic in their demand for an exclusive Department of Education. They intend to launch a nation-wide campaign to arouse public sentiment, and it is asserted that the Department will eventually come into being...