Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago in the midst of the campaign he called a conference to see if some sort of power pool could not be worked out between TVA and private power companies. The conference adjourned to await fact-finding efforts. Last week with fact-finding complete the President wrote to the conferees that the conference would not be reconvened. Reason: it would be useless because 19 power companies have obtained a temporary court injunction restraining TVA's efforts to distribute power. Wendell L. Wilkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. said that the President had known at the time...
Abraham Lincoln once remarked that he found it easier to run the Civil War than to satisfy his political followers' ravening for postmasterships. Last summer, in a move shrewdly timed to deflate Republican campaign attacks on Farleyism, Franklin Roosevelt put forward a solution to his great predecessor's problem. By Executive Order, in Congress' absence, he snatched 13.730 first, second and third class postmasterships out of the spoils trough, providing that they should hereafter be filled by: 1) postmasters already in office, after noncompetitive civil service examinations; 2) postal employes with civil service ratings, also after noncompetitive...
John L. Lewis' crude presentation of his campaign I. O. U. to Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight, his demand that the President now repay his political debt to Mr. Lewis by joining him in his war on General Motors (TIME, Feb. 1), put the New Deal in a highly uncomfortable position. By forcing the President to hand the C. I. O. chieftain a veiled but unmistakable rebuke, it left the New Deal appearing to side, against 3,500,000 friends, with those onetime pillars of the Liberty League, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and the du Ponts...
...Prime Minister's good wife, Mrs. Lucy Baldwin, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, got her admirable oar in with the elevation last week of Juliet, Lady Williams to the rank of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her nationwide campaign to provide cheaply pain-deadening drugs to British mothers in childbirth. Of six new baronetcies two were awarded to onetime Actor Sir Derwent Hall Caine, son of Author Hall Caine, and Percy Malcolm Stewart, who lately accompanied Edward VIII on his visit to South Wales (TIME...
...city's largest cake & pastry bakeries, and the president and business agent of a local of A. F. of L.'s International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers, whose President Daniel J. Tobin was chairman of the Democratic Labor Committee in last year's Presidential campaign. His electrical and baking cases, along with his moves against poultry, trucking, garment and used-brick rackets, typified the kind of thing that Prosecutor Dewey is really after-the racket that preys on law-abiding businessmen. But not until the restaurant racket trial began last week did he enter in open...