Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overpass. Men with queazy stomachs had no place one afternoon last week on the overpass-across the street to street car tracks-at the No. 4 gate of Henry Ford's great River Rouge plant. The union had opened its Ford campaign by hiring two vacant bank buildings near the plant, as headquarters. Next step was to print handbills calling for "Unionism not Fordism," demanding a basic $8 six-hour day for workers, better not only than Ford's present $6 eight-hour day, but better than the terms obtained from any other motor company. Third step...
...will go in the heat of their anger and need for vindication of national honor rests in the hands of Hitler and Mussolini, for the Non-Intervention Committee has power only to report, and not to check shipments of guns and soldiers. From the failure of Franco's midwinter campaign until yesterday the German and Italian enthusiasm for the war had cooled to such a degree that Great Britain was hopeful of an armistice. Unfortunately the attacks upon the battleships are just the excuse for which the extremists have been waiting. Considering the state of public opinion...
...indeed "twisters," though even more are simply insurance agents using the title as a merchandising scheme. State statute books are crammed with what insurance men call anti-twisting laws, but, based as they are on provisions against fraud and misrepresentation, they are not much use in the companies' campaign against the genuine insurance counselor. Efforts to convict a Manhattan counselor not long ago under he New York anti-twisting law were soon thwarted by the State Supreme Court, a reversal which led to revision of the law to make things difficult for all counselors...
...shows a net profit of $321,598, which the company deprecates as the usual seasonal business is always followed by a decline in the last half of the year. One thing Sir George Schuster did on his tie-strengthening visit was to approve a $1,000,000 Lipton advertising campaign, biggest since 1929, planned by husky, friendly William Wigmore Shannon, general manager of the U. S. company...
...Langley, S. C., during a fervent campaign speech for the post of county superintendent, Louis Togneri absentmindedly strode right off the platform into the crowd, broke...