Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without one eye on the deadline of 1938 spring planting. Another would be to give it a chance to get a head-start on such important legislation as anti-lynching and wages & hours, which it should settle before adjourning next year in time for members to go home and campaign in their primaries. Major disadvantage was that Congress did not want an extra session and might therefore be less tractable than ever. That the President, still in a fighting mood, would let this possibility interfere with his program last week seemed unlikely...
Last week's decision to ship the entire Japanese Army to China meant but one thing: Japan had committed herself to speeding up the slow process of history many times repeated in-three milleniums. At Shanghai,- nearly 100,000 Japanese troops were already involved. The campaign could no longer be fought locally. A new field of operations had been opened and the great triangle between Peiping, Shanghai and the mountains on the west had become a potential battleground...
...last national campaign was greatly confused. . . . Both parties campaigned largely with bait to particular groups and sections. In this confused situation the Republican Party attempted to outdo some of the New Deal baits. As one cynic over stated it, 'It promised every measure of the New Deal but said it would do it cheaper...
...postponing "indefinitely" the trial of Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, doughty Confessional Synod leader, and 78 other imprisoned anti-Nazi pastors, the German Government last week showed signs of backing down in its campaign against its Christian foes. The Reich, however, continued to devise ingenious ways of preserving its Aryan population from Jewish contamination...
...switch brands once satisfied with the one he has got, resulting in an all-round sales resistance calculated to turn an occidental adman's hair grey. Example: Smarting under the British monopoly, a U. S. client gave the Crow agency a go-ahead on the biggest advertising campaign ever put on in China. Chinese smokers took a few sample puffs, grimaced, went back to the British brand. When another manufacturer duplicated a favorite British blend exactly, designed a beautiful packet, priced it lower, the sales were still nil. Chinese customers, guided by the Confucian maxim that "fine words...