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Word: campaign (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...size of Langlie's vote and the knowledge that A. F. of L. leaders would do their best to defeat Meyers. Last week, in the runoff election, 37-year-old Lawyer Langlie's votes jumped to 78,997. "Call me Vic" Meyers, carrying on a serious campaign, was able to poll 48,114 or 518 more than the sum of his own and Mayor Dore's primary votes, but that was not enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Seattle Revolt | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Roosevelt, long prominent in Republican circles, has had a varied and successful career in public service. In recent months he has been widely considered by G. O. P. chiefs as Presidential timber in the 1940 campaign although he has consistently denied that he will run for office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. WILL ADDRESS FRESHMEN | 3/19/1938 | See Source »

...certainly plays the decisive role in Author Fisher's minor cases. A 200-pound English department head is a suppressed rakehell and sadist. Pompous little President Ledwidge launches a one-man anti-necking campaign by sneaking up on parked cars, yanking co-eds out of back seats. Brilliant, introvert Virgin Jerry Young is a beautiful woman whose career as a psychologist is wrecked when she is driven out of town by neurotic, wisecracking natives after a trumped-up arrest. Sorriest egotist of the lot is handsome John Smith, who marries with the belligerent vow always to tell his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Egomaniacs | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...actual progress of yesterday's individual campaign of petitions, leaders of the vote reform group said that they had no available figures as to how many Seniors had signed up. From a not entirely reliable source, however, it was learned that 50 men of 1938 had affixed signatures to the petition being circulated in Adams House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL MEETING VOTE GROUP'S PLEA | 3/8/1938 | See Source »

...LeBoutillier, a Princeton alumnus and chairman of the advisory council for the band, was so impressed by the superiorty of the Crimson contingent that he started a campaign "to bring the Tiger band up to the level of their football team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN-EYED TIGERS DESIRE BAND EQUAL TO CRIMSON'S | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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