Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious experience of being thrown into the shade by his political rival of 1936. Alf Landon gave Washington newshawks the impression not only of being a good loser but of being a fine fellow. Publicly and privately those who had been far from pro-Landon during the campaign loudly spoke their admiration of him. Said Scripps-Howard's Raymond Clapper, "A man who has taken both triumph and defeat in his stride . . . without suffering the slightest noticeable indigestion." Said the New York Times'?, Arthur Krock, "He captivated all of Washington...
...TIME, Dec. 14, Letters column, you credit the remark, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont," to my beloved boss, James Aloysius Farley, and call it the best wisecrack of the 1936 campaign...
...seen fit to print anything seriously embarrassing to His Majesty's Government. By printing the clowning jibes of G. B. Shaw and the earnest expostulations of H. G. Wells an appearance of non-censorship was being maintained at latest reports. This enhanced the effectiveness of a general "smothering campaign" which was an excellent thing in some respects. If the Duke & Mrs. Simpson can be minimized, belittled and extinguished from English minds, the Duke and his problematical Duchess can soon come back to England and live more or less happily ever after. In preparing the docile minds of English newspaper...
...instituting a campaign whose objective is the artist's right to benefit from the reproduction and distribution of copies of his work. These rights in time must be given legal recognition; but pending their establishment by the process of the law, we intend to make these rights effective by establishing them as common custom...
...Senator; of heart disease complicated by cancerous tongue and jaw; in Redfield, S. Dak. Insurgent Republican agrarian, he early advocated the equalization fee and debenture plans for U. S. farm relief. He got Republican President Coolidge to spend his 1927 vacation in the Black Hills, in the 1936 campaign switched to Democratic President Roosevelt...