Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, helped organize New York women for the Democracy. She participates in many of Mrs. Roosevelt's pet projects, is a co-vice president of her Val-Kill Furniture shop. When Caroline O'Day ran for Congress in 1934, Mrs. Roosevelt broke precedent to campaign for her. She was re-elected last autumn. No rabid feminist, she smooths ruffled Congressmen by such disarming state ments as: "But I don't know a thing about economics!" This is her new post as chairwomen of the Committee on Election of the President she may suddenly...
...sound, straightforward articles from reputable scientists, avoided the wilder forms of abuse but exposed and excoriated antiscientific pressure wherever he found it. In 1932 he found the struggle to keep Evolution going too difficult, decided to stop publication for a while and lay the foundations for revival by a campaign of vigorous field work. His three daughters and two sons, although sympathizing and helping, were inclined to laugh at his "pipe dream." But Katterfeld persisted...
Newest idea for covering Labor is Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson's Economic Battle Page started last week in his tabloid New York News. Like the Presidential Battle Page which he published last fall during the campaign, it was a series of arguments and sassy talk approved before publication by leaders of both camps and run in adjoining columns on the same page. Interviews were made by two News crack reporters, Carl Warren and Fred Pasley. One page last week quoted the wives of a striker and non-striker in a steel mill at Monroe, Mich...
Then Mr. Morgan took the box of paper back and had each sheet bound into a copy of the 350-page Democratic campaign book. This book, in which many businesses had bought advertising space, was sold last year at the Democratic convention for $2.50 a copy. With the President's autograph bound in, the same book, dressed up in leather covers, was offered as a de luxe President's edition at $250 a copy. Letters went out urging people to buy, accompanied by contracts, suggestively filled out for the purchase of four copies for $1,000. In case...
...plan of campaign was carefully worked out for all the Spanish fronts in the next few weeks. As an extra dividend Italy threw in one more general, Alfredo Guzzoni, no Fascist militiaman but a regular officer of long service and proven ability...