Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paying annual dues of $1, and many contributing more besides. About 3,500 are blood relatives of the jaunty "Abies and Georgies" who in devil-may-care brown berets are fighting the Spanish Rightists. The Friends have been collecting about $15,000 per month, last week launched a campaign to raise $50,000 per month from now on. Their spirit is that of Leftist Spanish Novelist Ramon J. Sender, who stepped off the Queen Mary last week in Manhattan to announce: "Even if Franco wins, this war in Spain will last throughout the century...
...were two bye-elections last week, one in which the Conservative member was returned without any opponent having dared to stand against him, another in which the Conservative candidate was defeated by Laborite Dr. Edith Summerskill, who thus becomes the twelfth female M.P. Dr. Summerskill had fought her Labor campaign as much as possible in the vein of defending handsome young Conservative Anthony Eden against the Conservative Prime Minister, so His Majesty's Government were chagrined to lose this bye-election...
Wollersdorf:. Josef Bürckel, the burly Nazi commissar sent by Berlin to Vienna to put on the plebiscite campaign, last week had barracks at Wöllersdorf-which was used as a prison camp for opponents of Dollfuss and later Schuschnigg-soaked with gasoline and set afire. While thousands gaped and the flames roared skyward with such intense heat that Orator Burckel was nearly scorched upon his rostrum and perspiration poured down his beet-red face, he shouted that Nazis will never again be locked up at Wöllersdorf. In Vienna there were rumors in responsible quarters that...
...Roque's Petit Journal, panhandling for millions, has founded a "Club of Friends of the Petit Journal" who give up cigarets or lipstick to contribute 10 francs a month. The Royalist Action Francaise, perennially broke, is still begging another 1,000,000 francs-starting a new campaign on the heels of an old one. Young L'Epoque must have 6,000,000 francs or it will close...
...each town where You Never Know has so far played Actress Velez, conducting a "happiness campaign," has presented $50 to charity. Presentation is uniformly in front of a camera. In Washington last fortnight, actress and cameraman were ready, but the matron of Friendship House, the charity organization selected, balked. Said she: "Publicity? We couldn't have that!" Said Donor Velez before stalking off irately: "Me geeve my good money in a clothes closet? Nuts...