Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Initiation fees were set and plans made for a financial campaign among the Undergraduates, with plans for the purchase of dinghies following Spring Vacation. A committee to investigate the dinghy situation was named, including the three officers and Harris S. Squibb '40 and John Richards...
Several clubs were organized to boost certain candidates for office, one of which went so far in its enthusiasm as to paint the name of their candidate on the sidewalk in front of the Union. However, the maintenance department removed the campaign propaganda before the polls opened at noon...
Langlie supporters now hope that the new Mayor will get together with Washington's Governor Clarence D. Martin to undertake a drive against labor terrorism similar to the campaign now being carried on by Oregon's Governor Charles H. Martin and Portland's Mayor Joseph K. Carson Jr. Last week, the indictment of eleven unionists in Portland brought the State total of those charged with "goonery" to more than 50. Most of those held are members of Dave Beck's Brotherhood of Teamsters. The charges range from window-breaking to arson and bombing. To date...
Hollywood labor, to which the present slump was merely the sharpest pinch of a long campaign of studio skimping & saving, fortnight ago engineered a general four-day work week agreement with the studios. And last week, the Screen Actors Guild was facing the problem of 4,000 members of the Guild's junior branch, chiefly extras and occasional players, for whom work has been so scanty that they have been unable to pay union dues. Since no actor in Hollywood can get a job without a Guild card, Guild officials were considering issuing temporary working cards to delinquents, permitting...
...JOURNAL - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A rebuke to self-pitiers is this diary of 57-year-old Helen Keller in the dark days that followed the death (in 1936) of her lifelong companion and famed teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy. Last fortnight Helen Keller undertook her biggest job, a campaign to raise $2,000,000 for the American Foundation for the Blind...