Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson had most fun with two rich but politically unsophisticated socialites who undertook to revive Philadelphia's Republican organization-City Chairman Jay Cooke, descendant of the Civil War financier, and Vice President Joseph Newton Pew Jr.. of Sun Oil Co., who financed Wilson's last mayoralty campaign. Cried the irrepressible mayor: "I'm going to take all the oil out of Pew. There isn't anything to take out of Cooke. . . . Why, every time 'Jumping Jay' Cooke hands out a statement prepared by the high-priced utilities' publicity department, the stench...
...swing votes in tough wards. The Board of Elections, investigating, found that Mayor Burton had spent $12,860 more than he had reported, bringing his total to $41,212. Cried Engineer McWilliams, who reported an expenditure of $4,700: "The Mayor is carriying deception and falsification even into his campaign." Mayor Burton's campaign treasurer explained that he had borrowed and supplied the $12,860 personally. Betting odds continued to favor Mayor Burton...
...raid when the hens were frightened. Anarchist collectivizers eyed the farm jealously once, but Cannaday remained unintimidated. Believer in the profit system, respecter of the law of supply & demand, he continued to sell his wares to hungry Madrileños, paying little heed to Leftist Spain's campaign to outlaw profiteering, fix prices...
...Queens a brand new college plunged into its first term, extending free higher education into the fourth of New York's boroughs and clearing the way for a campaign for another college by the patriotic citizens of the fifth, Staten Island...
...assist in its campaign to unionize the Ford Motor Co., the U.A.W. published a small volume entitled The Flivver King; A Story Of Ford-America, announced an edition of 200,000 to sell at 25? each. Its author: California visionary Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Flivver King ". . . because I am sick of seeing lies enthroned and ruling the world." A novelized biography of Henry Ford, The Flivver King contains no startling new facts, presents several little-known, lively anecdotes. Sample: When Automan Ford was in the midst of his Jew-baiting campaign, he selected Cineman William Fox as a victim...