Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past years, the Phillips Brooks House will conduct a clothing drive. Under the direction of Calvin W. Stillman '39, the campaign will start Monday...
...three young women are described as being completely without inhibitions and repressions, and although that may be a slight overstatement, they do manage to take a good deal of the monasticism out of the boarding school. They make their room the stamping-ground of a campaign to do something for Donkin, the housemaster. He is beginning to suffer for his unsuccessful resistance against the inhumanity of the grotesquely pious housemaster. The three young women start things off with a cocktail housewarming in the middle of the night, thus beginning a merry demoralization that almost results in the ruin...
...Abyssinian campaign caused eruptions of liberal forces in England and France, McKay continued. Sanctions imposed by the pressure of these groups permanently alienated the sympathies of the Fascist and democratic powers...
...rebuked by the London Daily Telegraph (which is close to Mr. Chamberlain) for printing rumors that "There exist and are known to Germany to exist in this country [Britain] a "certain number of people-not all of them obscure [Halifax & friends]- who would be prepared to welcome a German campaign of territorial expansion in the East [Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia] if by that means Germany could for the time being be diverted from exploiting her nuisance value in other directions [colonies]. Accordingly it requires no great exercise of the imagination to conjecture that Hitler at his meeting with Viscount Halifax will...
...working days each year at an average cost of $4 per day, as a result of infection with these conditions. "Even 50 years ago . . . the diseases were often considered incurable. . . . To-day scientific medicine, combining its efforts with those of public health officials, is beginning an organized, sustained campaign against the venereal diseases, a campaign in which the public is participating on a tremendous scale. Throughout the country, women's clubs, the junior chambers of commerce, and similar organizations are aiding in dissemination of knowledge. Intelligent people are voluntarily submitting themselves to Wassermann tests as examples to others...