Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week, FORTUNE'S June issue carried a special supplement giving a preview of its July poll on the President's popularity as affected by the Supreme Court issue. This showed a bigger change in his popularity than took place at any time during the campaign. Whereas 14 months ago 84.8% of those who were critical of the Court favored him, only 66.4% do so today, and among those who support the Court-as-is, his popularity has fallen from 35.9% to 23.6%. More to the point: although two months ago 52.6% of the voters in the FORTUNE...
...soon as the Olympic Games were over last year. Dictator Hitler got down in earnest to a rigorous anti-Catholic campaign. Catholic confessional schools were suppressed at Württemberg, in the Saar, in the Palatinate, and a State Youth Law suppressed surviving Catholic Youth organizations by ordering all children to join the Brown Shirt Hitler Youth...
...Catholic clergy were up in arms. Pastoral letters flew like autumn leaves protesting that the school campaign was a breach of the Vatican-Nazi Concordat (TIME, July 17, 1933). Hitler, however, had a trump card. He had long been lining up "evidence" to prove that German Catholic monasteries were hotbeds of immorality. In a climactic, triumphant effort to squelch Catholicism on Aryan soil he threw all the immorality trials into the courts at the same time. He hoped that wholesale convictions would destroy the prestige of the Catholic Church for good, that the Reich...
...museum trustee who last week undertook to head the campaign for the $10,779,925 is Lawyer Alexander Perry Osborn, eldest son of the museum's late President Henry Fairfield Osborn. Out of Princeton in 1905, out of Harvard Law School (he edited the Harvard Law Review) in 1909, young Perry Osborn became special guardian of the infant children of John Jacob Astor after that multi-millionaire sank with the S. S. Titanic (1912). During the War, he organized the War Credits Board. He served as chairman of the committee for the reorganization of the Army General Staff. Currently...
...Philadelphia Council hearing, Mayor S. Davis Wilson asked Board Chairman Samuel Matthews Vauclain of the Municipal Gas Corporation to support his campaign to reduce Philadelphia's gas rate from 90? to 50 per 1,000 cubic ft. Replied wealthy Octogenarian Vauclain. also board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works: "Fifty-cent gas is no more possible than my going to Heaven when...