Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That the Generalissimo was now going to campaign against the Japanese exclusively by means of hit-and-run guerilla warfare...
Stalin, when drafting the new Soviet Constitution (TIME, June 15, 1936 et seq.), made it possible for any legally registered society to nominate candidates for office, forgetting or ignoring the fact that there are 30,000 such religious groups in Russia today. When Christians entered the campaign, Stalin was reminded. He promptly put a stop to it. With refreshed memory he last week acted to crush Christian presumption...
Prelude to a C.I.O. organizing campaign among dining room and dormitory help was an article last week in the Nation, called Yale Needs the C.I.O., by the Rev. George Butler, a Yale Divinity School graduate. Yale maids, he declared, get only 25? an hour, against 29.1? in Connecticut's laundries, considered a sweated industry. But while student and alumni committees were being formed to help in the organizing drive, industrious Yale Daily News heelers reported the C.I.O. had a big job on its hands. Cracked a janitor: "Lewis [C.I.O.'s John L.] sent his son to Princeton. That...
...French, English, Spanish, Russian. In the last tongue, no sermon had been preached before in a Catholic church in England. Preacher was Father Bourgeois, crack French Jesuit whose order has transferred him from the Church's Latin rite to its Russian rite, as key man in a new campaign to convert the U. S. S. R. to the faith...
...White House conference day later cagey News Reporter John O'Donnell jockeyed incident Roosevelt into openly denouncing the press subsidy by the Government as an "unhealthy thing." Grinning, the President suggested that the press might well campaign for repeal of the 90-year-old subsidy, originally enacted to promote distribution of newspapers and magazines, uplift educational and moral standards. In 24 hours the President had his answer from the American Newspaper Publishers Association. It took a quick sense of its postal committee and solemnly denied that second-class privileges amount to a subsidy. "Charges of private agencies of transportation...