Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor foe of John L. Lewis' C. I. O. Mr. Frey boldly announced that he would go right ahead with his plan, to head up a mass meeting in Houston this week: start an A. F. of L. oil organizing drive in competition with the C. I. O. campaign which got under way last week...
Activities of the Law School Union include a campaign for the building of student government. In this attempt they have been encouraged by the faculty...
...John L. Lewis -has made it all those things. But if U. M. W.'s strength is in Leader Lewis, his strength is no less in that great union, some 500,000 strong. Its half-million votes, plus its $150,000 contribution to the Democratic campaign fund last summer, have made him a prime political power. Needing money for the C. I. O. campaign which has carried him to Labor's peak, he raised-and can raise again when he needs to-a $1,000,000 war chest simply by tapping each of his miners $1 per month...
...premiums in grain or cash, can insure their crops against natural hazards. If this pioneer legislation, which is concerned with the 1938 crop only, proves efficacious, the New Deal hopes to extend it to other staples, make general crop insurance a permanent Government policy (TIME, March 1). Basically a campaign promise of both Democrats and Republicans, it was passed without a roll call, sent to the House...
Taciturn by profession, when retired to private life sailors often make inspired and voluble crusaders. Anti-alcohol and antinarcotic groups found this so years ago when the late Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson barnstormed for them against liquor and drug evils. The Emergency Peace Campaign, best integrated organization of its kind, evidently had a like idea when last week it launched its No Foreign War Crusade with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, U. S. N. retired, at the helm. During the next two months E. P. C. will send speakers into 2,000 U. S. communities. This week...