Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began with a preamble, in which the President dismissed the campaign against his bill to reorganize the Executive branch of the Federal Government (TIME, April 4) as "organized effort on the part of political or special self-interest groups." There followed a letter, dated two days earlier, to a friend whose name the President said he was withholding "because he did not write for publicity purposes." In the letter the President set forth, in 1,100 words, not only his personal disinclination to be a U. S. dictator but his objections to proposed amendments in the Reorganization Bill. Loudly demanded...
...Supreme Court Justices, half-a-dozen Ambassadors and a quorum of top-ranking Republicans, a good handful of anti-Roosevelt Democrats like Montana's Wheeler, Missouri's Clark and Rhode Island's Gerry. Washington political wiseacres promptly concluded that Mr. Vandenberg was launching his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1940 according to the festive precedent established by High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt's fabulous cocktail party last February...
...international diplomacy was their most binding tie. From 1914 on House commuted to Europe as Wilson's private emissary to statesmen and kings, trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept-us-out-of-war campaign in which Wilson was reelected, again a diplomat during the War and early League of Nations days, was estranged from Wilson in the latter days of the Administration. More influential than any brain truster of Franklin Roosevelt, Colonel House never held an elective office...
...farmers and took up more sensational causes. Increasingly unhappy, he would interrupt his incoherent tirades against the Jews and Catholics with strange stories about assassins who were after him, about mysterious footprints found outside his mansion windows. At times he thought he was going insane. Beaten in one campaign after another, he was finally jeered off the stage in Atlanta, where he had had so many triumphs. Until the end of his life he detested industrialism in all its forms, was driven frantic by noise, and in the depths of his despair and hatred of the modern world cried...
...important part in the inside union's organizing campaign was played by janitors in the Freshman dormitories and houses. These men impaired the University's record of impartiality by permitting union cards to be distributed to the maids on University time. Some janitors exceeded their authority even further by attempting to compel maids to join the new union. More than one apostle of the new faith intimated to the maids that their bread and butter depended on their decision...