Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important contracts. Working from a big modern office covering the entire 36th floor of Pittsburgh's Grant Building-a few floors above Ernest Tener Weir's anti-union National Steel Corp.-the S. W. O. C. has since then put on the most efficient organizing campaign in the history of U. S. labor. In 18 months it 1) opened company towns to union organizers, 2) jacked the Amalgamated membership to 500,000 (according to its own claims), 3) obtained contracts from 445 steel companies, among them U. S. Steel. Only a handful of concerns, including Tom M. Girdler...
...following morning. Nobody surrendered. Through the day Leftist troops continued to fight from house to house, ever farther into the city, kept the attack going through the night with searchlights. For the first time the new trained army of Leftist Spain had been able to carry a properly planned campaign through four successive days of attack...
...district "probably" would withdraw. They did. Nearly two years ago Joseph Stalin told an interviewer: "You are puzzled by the fact that only one party will come forward at the elections. You think there will be no election contests. But there will be, and I foresee very lively election campaigns!" This year, however, Candidate Stalin made no personal campaign whatever...
...mind was big Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. Gifford Pinchot, elected Pennsylvania's Governor despite the "works" from Pennsylvania Power & Light, found a job for Mr. Beamish. As secretary of the Commonwealth, Mr. Beamish had plenty of opportunities to state his views about the public utilities. During the campaign of 1934 he wet his finger, held it up in the wind and hastily became a Democrat. So when Governor George Earle set up a new Public Utility Commission early this year there was no reason why Mr. Beamish should not be one of the commissioners...
Another step in the campaign to unionize 2700 University employees, was taken last night by Robert H. Everitt, district representative of the International Building Service Employees' Union at a preliminary organization meeting of maids at Brattle Hall...