Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday morning mass. The two assassins were seized by police and shot two hours later in the police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering a campaign speech (TIME, March 2, 1936 et seq.}. Last week Puerto Rico's dread disease of violence had its bloodiest irruption to date...
...military service by falsely pleading heart disease." By 1934 he was running his own paper Rex (taking its name from Christus Rex) which, though purporting to work within the frame of the Catholic Party, offended some Catholic leaders by its personal onslaughts and was ostracized. Followed a noisy Rexist campaign against the "banksters" - financial powers behind the Government. Already Degrelle was holding hundreds of meetings, had thousands of followers, saluting each other with out stretched arms, wearing red armbands with the cross and crown of Christus Rex in black. Rexism is "against all political parties," mildly antiSemitic. It acknowledges...
...clubwoman and president of the Federation in 1932. She was glad to interrupt her work as dean of progressive Stoneleigh College at Rye, N. H., where she trains girls to become businesswomen, to join Dr. Little's crusade. Because she is magnetic and persuasive (Republicans used her to campaign in New Hampshire for Landon), Mrs. Poole has been invaluable in overcoming the not inconsiderable opposition of cancerphobes, getting club leaders to cooperate with leaders of medical societies in sponsoring a forthcoming series of lectures about cancer...
Cancer Control. So eager was the U. S. medical profession to cooperate in this anti-cancer campaign that last week the four important U. S. organizations dealing with cancer-the American College of Surgeons, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the American Society for the Control of Cancer-formed a Cancer Council, which will answer any reasonable question about cancer sent by doctor or layman to headquarters at No. 1250 Sixth Avenue, New York City. Members of this Cancer Council are: Dr. Frank E. Adair, Memorial Hospital, New York...
...Marquis W. Childs's Sweden: The Middle Way that he dispatched a commission to Europe to study co-ops on their native soil. The co-op commission spent more than two months abroad, returning to find that co-operation was being muted for the duration of the Presidential campaign. Meantime the members of the commission, headed by Jacob Baker, assistant WPAdministrator, were unable to agree among themselves on what to report, and the New Deal apparently lost interest. Belatedly last week the Commission sent its findings to President Roosevelt in the form of a 414-page volume with...