Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most newsworthy feature of Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet reshuffle last May was the appointment of pudgy Leslie Hore-Belisha as Secretary of State for War. In Stanley Baldwin's Government this shrewd little Jew, as Minister of Transport, had won unprecedented publicity by his road-safety campaign, his famed orange-topped Belisha Beacons...
Fortnight ago many Germans hoped that the postponement of the trial of Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, defiant Anti-Nazi Protestant pastor (TIME, Aug. 16), forecast the gradual abandonment of the Reich's campaign against all religious groups that run afoul the Nazi ideology...
...potent Rightist assault against Madrid of fortnight ago had broken down. For many weeks they have been aware that the Italian and German advisers of Generalissimo Franco, gathering daily in the heavily guarded headquarters directly opposite the west door of Salamanca Cathedral, have advocated two different plans of campaign for the remainder of the summer. Basically the German scheme was to immunize every front but Madrid, try to lure the Leftists into one more half baked offensive, always fruitful of casualties, and then mass every available man from Malaga and the South, the Basque front, Toledo, Teruel to make...
...these generals put all their troops into the campaign Chiang Kai-shek can count on nearly a million men. So far Japan apparently expects to oppose all this with just one general. Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki, commandant at Tientsin (see cut), who was not only fighting Japan's war last week but busying himself with the details of setting up another Japanese puppet state in the Peiping North China area. During all this Premier Fumimaro Konoye took to his bed in Tokyo, ostensibly overcome by the heat...
...last week's proceedings were devoted to speeches. There was a "most interesting and beautiful social function" in the "most beautiful botanical gardens" of the University of Pennsylvania on a most sticky, humid afternoon, a night club show, a church meeting, and an election. Winner in a spirited campaign for Association president was wizened, spry little William Lepré Houston, long a law professor at Washington's Howard University, uncle of Federal Judge Hastie, father of Charles Hamilton Houston, special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Judge Hastie and Son Houston...