Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House clerks spent the better part of two days trying to find their pay checks which arrived in the same mails as 100,000 letters containing dimes for the Infantile Paralysis Campaign...
...year ago Thomas Dewey, at the height of his campaign to bust the big racketeering trusts, descended upon Harlem with devastating effect, scaring the wits out of most of the bankers and collectors. Most of the busy executives of the industry left the city. Six months later Dixie Davis and eleven others were indicted. Dixie Davis had a $5,000 reward put on his head...
...shouting and bombs bursting in air, by the iron Duke of Wellington. Many a time have we seen the good duke's armies cavorting on the silver screen, and never to such advantage as in "The Firefly." We feel, however, as one whose ancestors fought in the Peninsula Campaign under the aforementioned duke, that it was not altogether worth the candle. There is no reason why Spain should always be the football field for other nations' military escapades...
Captain James F. Chace '38 and Coach Bert Haines of the 150 pound crew also spoke as the plans for the coming rowing campaign were outlined. Formal rowing will begin at the Newell Boat House on Monday, with the tank reserved for the Varsity on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and for Yardlings on Tuesday and Thursday until all crews can be sent out on the river...
...WARS AND MORE TO COME-Herbert L. Matthews - Carrick & Evans ($2.50). Direct, unphilosophical reporting by one of the ablest New York Times correspondents, on the Italian campaign in Ethiopia and the siege of Madrid. The eleven chapters on Ethiopia make the Italian advance more of a pushover than U. S. readers would have guessed; the twelve Spanish chapters, written from the Loyalist side, give a confused account of political developments, a vivid description of the battle of Brihuega, which Matthews considers one of the most decisive in history...