Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard as at other colleges. And if these R.O.T.C. men believe in the merits of preparedness and the rather completed ineptitude of the present U.S. force in comparison with other armies, let them make their grand demonstration today be but the opening gun in their own noise making campaign for the ideal of preparedness as against that of peace at any price...
Most diverting of all her stunts was her weight-reducing campaign. Called "The Big Girl" because of her 251 Ib. when she took office, she decided to reduce after she made trips to her municipal bathing beach and her own life guards laughed when she waddled out in a bathing suit, size 52. For more than a year all Wildwood watched her gamely shake off pound after pound. When she lost 102 lb.and two of her chins, there was municipal rejoicing. Mayor Bradway further endeared herself to sporting Wildwoodmen at a wrestling match in the Municipal Auditorium. The audience became...
...Trainer Conway, last week's victory was the reward of an extraordinary campaign of which the purpose was not so much to turn War Admiral into the best race horse in the U. S. as to turn him into a horse healthy and hale enough to race at all. As a two-year-old, War Admiral last year won three races, finished second twice, third once. Offsetting his speed and good blood he had one dangerous defect: he was delicate. Last winter, instead of growing as a two-year-old should, he showed signs of remaining the same size...
Died. Harry Stewart New, 78, onetime (1923-29) U. S. Postmaster General, Republican National Chairman (1907-08) and Senator from Indiana (1917-23); of pneumonia; in Baltimore. He established the U. S. air mail service, in 1922 made the first political campaign speech by radio...
...campaign has been going on in the graduate schools since the middle of last week, and will start in earnest in the Houses this week...