Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced the death of the 'official spokesmen' in March, 1933. He now announces the passing of the so-called authoritative spokesmen-those who write as 'one of the President's close advisers.' " With these words the President officially disowned his intimate personal adviser and campaign aid, Dr. Stanley High, who founded the Good Neighbor League to re-elect him. Cause of the repudiation was an article by Dr. High appearing in the Saturday Evening Post, entitled "Whose Party Is It?" Prefaced by an editor's note describing its author as having the "reputation...
...feeling far better than at that momentous press conference two years ago, when, after the Supreme Court invalidated NRA, he lashed out hurt and angry at "horse-&-buggy" interpretation of the Constitution. Those comments were hurled back at him during last year's campaign. In his message to Congress last month he sidetracked that issue, declaring...
Under the appraising eye of Coach Tom Boiles, a continuous procession of eights kept Newel tank churned yesterday afternoon in the first session of a long crew campaign, a campaign that consists of an almost unbroken series of daily workouts stretching from the end of midyears until the final sprint at New London...
...Museum's president, canny John Stogdell ("Stog") Stokes, had staged his act with great skill. With thousands of Philadelphians who had never been near his imposing yellow limestone building sweeping through the doors, now vas his moment to launch a drive he had long been planning: a campaign to raise $15,500,000 for his institution in the next ten years...
...fall of 1904, Russia's Far Eastern campaign against Japan was not going very well. The first Russian Pacific squadron had already had one mauling, and the Russian army was on the defensive in Manchuria. So the Baltic Fleet was given sailing orders for the Pacific. The long cruise did not start auspiciously. The Oryol, Novikoff-Priboy's ship, ran aground shortly after leaving harbor. Before the fleet had rounded Denmark there were several false alarms about Japanese torpedo boats. In the North Sea some British fishing smacks were mistaken in the darkness for enemy destroyers...