Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is little doubt that the Morningsiders are not as effective on the court as they were on paper before the current campaign opened last December. With Captain John O'Brien, Tom Macioce, Ed Anderson, Cliff Wolf, and Stan Leggett returning as experienced veterans, it was expected that Coach Paul Mooney would have a club whose calibre would at least equal that of the 1936 undefeated League champion...
Harvard professors joined New England Congressional leaders yesterday in endorsing the campaign to wipe out he atrocities of modern warfare, and pledged their support to an international congress to revise the rules of war to protect non-combatants...
...Virginia D. Virgin has charge of the campaign to suppress venereal diseases in West Virginia. Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter has similar charge in Pennsylvania. In Illinois the executive is Dr. John McShane. Eighteen months ago these jobs were obscure ones. Then, with an article in Reader's Digest, Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service opened a campaign to cure the 6,500,000 syphilitics in the U. S., prevent a new crop of 500,000 cases developing each year. First he was obliged to destroy national taboo against discussing venereal disease publicly...
...announced that, of the $500,000 which he needs to propagandize for Dr. Parran's program, he already had collected $102,000. Senator Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin and Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle of North Carolina urged Congress to appropriate $271,000,000 towards a 13-year campaign for prevention, treatment, control of venereal disease...
...normal" U. S. per capita consumption of meat is 146 lb. per year, consumption last year was only 120 lb.. a difference equivalent to 5,600,000 head of cattle. Normal cattle population of the U. S.: 65,000,000. I. A. M. P. plans a nationwide advertising campaign to make people eat up the surplus. Theme: "Market supplies of livestock are such that there is an abundance of meat of improved quality available at attractive prices...