Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pull down the full force of Franco's armies on Leftist heads, it succeeded last week beyond measure. With his toughest general, Miguel (siege of Oviedo) Aranda, and his ablest General, Jose Fidel (capture of Bilbao) Davila, leading the counterattack, El Caudillo himself reportedly took charge of the campaign from field headquarters 75 miles northwest at Calatayud...
Another veteran of the Ethiopian campaign but on the Italian side was the third casualty, hulking, grey-haired Edward J. Neil, 37, whose boast it was that neither he nor his father had ever worked for anyone but the Associated Press. Long-time a Manhattan sports writer, he won a medal and the title Commendatore from Marshal Badoglio in Ethiopia, went on night raids with Arab sharpshooters in Palestine, reported King George's Coronation, and scooped the world on the Rightist capture of Bilbao by filing his story under fire...
...people who write this material are, in spite of a continual campaign to get in new blood, a fairly constant band of professional "slick paper" magazine writers who make from $5,000 to $250,000 a year at their trade. Incorrigible highbrows criticize the Post's taboos (par for middle-class conception of decency anywhere), complain that in its non-fiction no intellectual rivers are ever set afire, in its fiction no Buddenbrooks appear among the Clarence Buddington Kellands. This is old stuff to Editor Stout's staff. Nowadays they respond simply by handing out a reprint...
Because there is no state law which sanctions compulsory collective bargaining, workers have met with rebuffs from Columbia heads. At the instigation of the A.F. of L., which has come to the rescue, the group is launching a campaign to appeal first to the trustees, finally to the state labor arbitration board...
...meantime the waitresses have forged ahead in their own campaign and will vote on the reports of their representative, Joseph Stefani at a meeting Wednesday. Still confident that a signed agreement would climax labor activity in the dining halls, leaders said that would make "another try" to gain recognition before releasing statements...