Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop to local imitators. Under Stalin's instructions, a vigorous roundup of small-fry purgers began. Jumping in to lend the Dictator their prestige, justices of the Soviet Supreme Court exhorted the lower courts and the Secret Political Police to join forces in a nationwide campaign to "Purge the Purgers...
...head in Mexico. Mexico City's new Committee for Defense of Mexican Merchants loudly complained to the office of Secretary of Interior Garcia Tellez that: "Most of the 200 Mexicans in the fur business have been displaced by Jews!" Mexico City's conservative Novedades excitedly headlined: "THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HEBREWS IN MEXICO...
...Lord & Thomas to help it defeat a chain-store tax (TIME, Nov. 9, 1936). Lord & Thomas put young Theodore W. Braun on the job. Ted Braun had made something of a reputation as a marketing counsel in Los Angeles. As general manager of the anti-chain-store-tax campaign, he taught California farmers that the chain stores were their customers and friends, and the tax was defeated. As part of Ted Braun's anti-tax campaign, the National Association of Food Chains, represented by the heads of 16 large companies, sat down in May 1936 with representatives...
...both houses of the Legislature a bill designed to correct these shortcomings, to require all nurses to have some sort of license according to their training, skill and experience. Backed by many interested professionals and public-spirited citizens, and by the New York State Nurses Association, the Todd campaign got under way to a fanfare of agitation about "bootleg nurses." As horrible examples, the campaign literature cited: 1) a nurse who tried to feed a chop, two vegetables and a piece of pie to a child with a temperature of 104.5°; 2) a nurse who gave baths, accompanied...
Died. J. Waddy Tate, 66, onetime (1929-31) mayor of Dallas, Texas; after brief illness; in Dallas. In the 1927 mayoralty campaign, Tate wore blue overalls, carried a fishing rod, lost; but two years later he spent only $218 campaigning, bought frankfurters for 10,000 voters, won hands down...