Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...separately in the Senate chamber. Unique, he was chief officer of the nation for the minute or two that passed before the main drama of the occasion was enacted by Franklin Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes. This act was a dramatization of the Constitutional issue which troubled the campaign of 1936 and still burns. Standing up and removing his skull cap from his damp hair, the Chief Justice boomed: "Do you, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, solemnly swear that you will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of your ability"-with every word...
...last year were announced by Walter H. Page '37 last night. 1936-37 Cambridge Red Cross $250 Family Welfare of Cambridge 50 Boy Scouts 100 Y.M.C.A. 50 Salvation Army 150 Avon Home 25 East End Union 25 Margaret Fuller House 25 Cambridge Neighborhood House 25 Boston Emergency Campaign 250 Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students 50 Total...
...idea of a reasonable settlement, including fair power rates to the public, a fair price to utilities for their properties if communities decide on public ownership. "The large private power networks within TVA transmission range depend for operating efficiency on a relatively small number of the larger cities. A campaign Which would result in public ownership in ten to 20 of these cities might practically destroy the ability of the large systems to render maximum service or to maintain economical generation and transmission systems. Effort to bring about such disruption seems to be under way. . . . Private companies should cease coercion...
...veterinarian, had it debarked by a simple nicking of its vocal chords. Outraged were zoophiles by this deprivation of the dog's chief emotional outlet. Last week Buffalo's indignant S. P. C. A. concluded after careful study that the operation was not illegal, launched a campaign for a State law forbidding...
...other merchandise on A & P shelves has increased immeasurably. If A & P decided to discredit national brands as a preliminary to making everything it sold, that would be horrid news to U. S. foodmen. That the New-Orleans handbill might be the opening gun in just such a campaign was the dizziest speculation that occurred to food manufacturers. Another was that the handbills were intended as a gratuitous slap at the Robinson-Patman Act (against price discrimination). After foodmen had stewed for a full week in these possibilities, A & P's President Hartford disowned the cat that had popped...