Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial reforms have gone through, unemployment has dropped, impoverished agriculture is now prosperous, but sober Paul van Zeeland sees himself in a larger role: leader of a new group of European powers. Hence his desire to placate Belgium's noisy Flemish minorities, hence his embarking on a quiet campaign no other Belgian Premier has dared: to make friends with The Netherlands...
...declared that the immorality trials of Catholics in Germany "make Wartime propaganda stories look like bedtime tales" (TIME, May 31), has this crucial issue: Shall the Reich or shall the Catholic Church educate Germany's 2,000,000 or so Catholic children? Catholics hold that Hitler's campaign against monkish immorality is merely a lever to topple the entire German Catholic Church into a sewer of disrepute...
...factory last week. Six long tables littered with headgear-straws of every shape, felts of every color-stretched like assembly lines the length of the room. The long lines of men who sat along both sides of the tables were assembling not hats but a plan of campaign against their rival brothers of toil. They were the representatives of 102 national and international unions,* members of the A. F. of L. They had been called together by the Federation's Executive Council to approve a four-point plan of battle against John L. Lewis...
Opening move in this campaign was to permit, at long last, Spanish Delegate Julio Alvarez del Vayo to produce his White Book listing documentary evidence of Fascist intervention in Spain. These documents-mostly photostats of papers taken from captured soldiers-were almost completely limited to evidence of Italian intervention. The press summary handed newshawks listed 100 separate documents. The book contained 101, the hastily suppressed 101st carrying an overlooked reference to German participation. All this deeply planned strategy was knocked higher than a kite at week's end by the bombs that fell on the Nazi battleship Deutschland...
...General Farley. Only Catholic ever to be nominated for President by a major party was Alfred Emanuel Smith. Many a U. S. Catholic still believes that it was for his Catholicism alone, and not his Wetness and his Bowery accent, that Al Smith was politically crucified. Certainly the whispering campaign against him on this ground and the absurd charge, openly cartooned by such sheets as the KKKlannish Fellowship Forum (see cut), that he would "set up the Pope in the White House," earned for Al Smith a Catholic martyr's crown. Year after his defeat he received the University...