Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Michelson. oldtime newshawk who became National Committee Publicity Director in 1929 while Jim Farley was still a boxing commissioner. So effectively did he bulls-eye his arrows, after dipping them in pure vitriol, that gasping Old Guardsmen cried out in anguish against Charley Michelson's "Smear Hoover" campaign. When the New Dealers rode into power he was called in to explain them to the country. He smoothed press relations during the Bank Holiday. He wrote speeches trying to sell NRA. In fact, he was supposed to write all the good speeches for the President, his Cabinet, his leaders...
...burned almost to the waterline. Although the scene was reminiscent of the Morro Castle, the casualty list was small -three dead, two missing at week's end. This was the first loss of passenger life at sea by fire or collision on U. S. vessels since the safety campaign which got under way two years ago after the Ward Line disasters (TIME, Feb. 4, 1935). The City of Baltimore's Captain Charles O. Brooks said he suspected sabotage, because his brother, skipper on another line, had been "threatened" by "C. I. O. organizers...
Year ago Britain's Our Dumb Friends' League-a be-kind-to-animals organization founded in 1897 and supported by voluntary contributions-launched a campaign to rescue from the Continent any of these horses that had survived. The league had little difficulty in tracing them because each bears an identifiable Army mark. Moreover a noted Belgian animal lover, the Dowager Duchess De Croy, provided the league with a list of all the old horses in Belgium. Whenever the League finds a British Warhorse and has enough money on hand, they buy it for about $100, take...
...Speer was re-elected in 1908 and promptly closed all the city's gambling houses. Of these the toughest, most renowned was the old Arcade at 16th and Larimer streets. The Arcade's owner, a Serb named Vaso L. Chucovich, contributed heavily to the mayor's campaign, remained his warm friend, grew rich in Denver real estate and on his death in 1933 left $100,000 for a Robert W. Speer memorial. Denver's wrangles over the execution of this bequest have been periodic art news ever since...
...supervises the annual publication of famed, authoritative American Underwriting Houses and Their Issues. Believing that the obsolete security business begun by Mr. Smythe needs to get beyond Wall Street and the Produce Exchange into the attics and safe-deposit boxes throughout the East, Mr. Schwarzschild last week announced a campaign to arouse owners of forgotten bonds. This week Smythe, Inc.'s first traveling library will leave Manhattan in a trailer for upstate New York in charge of two young men commissioned to set up as consultants or as buyers of "cats & dogs...