Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago last week, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt met Governor Landon, this was the genial advice which he gave his rival in the Presidential campaign. (Last week, President Roosevelt commemorated the occasion by going fishing himself-not in the river Potomac, because he had repaired to Hyde Park-but on the yacht Potomac, in Long Island Sound...
...Bonus passed. And no one who knows the history of the Grand Army of the Republic, encamped last week in Madison, Wis. with only 200 oldsters to answer the roll call, doubts that pensions for World War veterans wdll follow the Bonus inevitably. For the V. F. W. the campaign opened with instructions for its able Washington Lobbyist, Millard W. Rice, to demand: 1) pensions or public jobs for every World War veteran, and 2) revision of the Social Security Act so that unemployable Foreign War Veterans can start drawing old-age pensions at 50 instead...
...with the failure of the Rightist offensive against Madrid, Leftist officials predicted that one of the next moves of the Franco government and its foreign supporters would be unrestricted submarine warfare to prevent oil, munitions, food, reaching Leftist Spain. Privately last week many of them were admitting that this campaign was being uncomfortably successful...
...editorial run in Izvestia which offered an explanation, privately held by many an observer, for Stalin & Co.'s purge of line jumpers. In an article headed "Panic Raisers," Mikhail Suvinsky daringly accused Communist authorities of the Saratov region of covering up their own inefficiency with a campaign against "saboteurs and enemies." "What woebegone leader would not jump at such a convenient slogan to cover up his own inactivity and inability to work?" asked Newsman Suvinsky, in an editorial that somehow got by Izvestia's editors. "Spurred by thoughts of sabotage, the leaders developed a series of trials...
...Barber took his place. He and a new president, William Porter Allen, modernized both Childs restaurants and Childs food. White tiles yielded to Puritan, even to Moorish decorations with dance orchestras and goldfish ponds. Meat returned to the menu and instead of vegetarian dogma Childs sponsored a noisy campaign to "Eat all you can for 60?." After an unsuccessful trial this also was dropped like a hot pancake. Really successful, however, was tie next major change, a change which has put dollars into the pockets of many a restaurant man from coast to coast-installation of bars...