Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post of Assistant Secretary of War, vacant since Harry Woodring was upped to full Secretary last September, President Roosevelt appointed Louis Arthur Johnson, commander of the American Legion in 1932-33, director of the Veterans division in last year's Democratic campaign. A West Virginia lawyer, captain in the World War, now 46, Legionary Johnson's chief responsibility will be buying all the Army's supplies...
According to the Kremlin, Russia last week was still full of "Enemies of the People"-Trotskyists and saboteurs hired by Fascist powers. Not less vigorous than Stalin's denunciation of them was his continued campaign to wipe them...
...absurdly without an issue. Hemmed in by a solid wall of Federal troops suspiciously watching for any trouble he might start with his 30,000 militiamen, Governor Flores da Cunha received without enthusiasm the news that Candidate Salles de Oliveira was about to charter a steamship for a barnstorming campaign along the coast...
Meantime the chains hammered with a joint advertising campaign of their own with themes like these...
...Haverford, two miles from his archenemy, George Earle. He is a pillar in the National Association of Food Chains, which has been creating an astonishing reserve of good will for its members by organizing selling drives to relieve farm surpluses. Last year it started off with a nation-wide campaign in canned peaches, cleaned up the glut in short order. When last year's Drought flooded the market with cattle that could no longer be fed, the chains managed to increase beef sales 34% in the middle of summer, a poor beef season. The same thing was done with...