Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countermove. He decided to resign his own seat, declared that he himself would oppose Rexist Degrelle "as a non-partisan candidate," then hurried off to the Royal Palace to confer with King Leopold III who fixed April 11 for the contest. Declared the Premier: "I do not intend to campaign by radio. No candidate will resort to the radio. The country would only be uselessly upset through that kind of campaign." Thus was cut from beneath Rexist Degrelle's feet any chance of broadcasting Rexist propaganda under the cloak of vote-canvassing...
...question of how to educate our teachers must necessarily be preceded by deciding what constitutes education. In helping to solve this problem a university provides its greatest service, and it is with this in view that Dean Holmes has embarked upon a campaign of graduate school cooperation at Harvard. The relatively new degree, Master of Arts in Teaching, combines the two essentials of a good teacher -- thorough knowledge of the subject he intends to teach, and an understanding of the principles of education. Another angle of cooperation is planned for supervisors and school officials by sending students in the School...
...plurality of Lodge in the Senatorial campaign mounted higher and Curley's friends dropped away like leaves in the autumn, the ex-governor's political grave seemed dug and waiting. Now comes his bid for the Mayorality--a stunning disappointment to the men and women who have worked for years to drive him out of public life. It must also be a lesson in practical politics, teaching that a machine is not necessarily beaten by one defeat at the polls. Oratory and newspaper articles do not touch the secret sources of the voting strength of a man like Curley...
...Depression, many a school board slashed salaries which teachers believed were guaranteed by contract. The West New York, N. J. Board of Education in 1933 ordered reductions ranging from 10% to 15%. Principal J. E. Dransfield of Hudson Heights Grammar School has since been conducting a "friendly" legal campaign for 95 of his fellow West New York teachers to determine whether their contracts were binding under the State's Tenure Law of 1909. The cuts were last week finally upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled: "The Act of 1909 . . . was but a regulation...
...with the ambition of making her daughter as good a skater as Mrs. Vinson's Maribel, who had promised to send small Cecilia a pair of skates she had outgrown. The skates fitted Cecilia exactly. In them, under her mother's careful supervision, she began a unique campaign of which last week's victory was the climax...