Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...packing for Europe and the Court of St. James. Chairman Splawn of the ICC talked over the rate increases which his Commission is expected to grant the railroads. Congressman Lucas of Illinois, fresh from announcing his candidacy for the Senate seat held by William Dieterich, solicited support for his campaign. Aubrey Williams, Administrator of WPA (vice ailing Harry Hopkins), discussed the spending of the new quarter-billion-dollar relief appropriation...
...Senator Tom Taggart's rococo hotel at French Lick Springs, accepted the resignation of Son Tom Taggart Jr. as national committeeman, elected as his successor Indianapolis Lawyer Frank McHale, deep-voiced, burly onetime University of Michigan footballer, original McNutt-for-President man. Also proceeding on schedule was the campaign against Senator Van Nuys, long on the outs with the McNutt-Townsend-Minton "two percent club," the machine organization to which State employes kick back that share of their salary. Having forfeited the last hope of Administration support by fighting the President's court plan, honest Senator Van Nuys...
Describing the Rightist drive, partially under his command, General Juan Yague told correspondents at captured Peralejos, eight miles from Teruel, ''The operation was the same bolsa or 'pocket' maneuver we used to such good effect throughout our northern campaign and at Brunete last summer...
...large share of the credit for the success of this operation should go to General Monasterio's cavalry veterans, who demonstrated so well their efficiency in mountain fighting during our northern campaign and who have again repudiated the doubts some military authorities hold regarding cavalry's usefulness in modern warfare...
When the expedition arrived in Manhattan last week, eleven days and 2,000 miles after it had started, Lincoln School began to reckon the results. The editors of the student paper, impressed with the co-operative stores they had seen at Norris, prepared to campaign for a co-operative lunchroom. But when Lincoln's teachers tallied up the scores on attitude tests given the students before and after the trip, one thing that $9,100 of Sloan money had bought amazed them. Most of the class had been in favor of Government planning when they set out, and were...