Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan fortnight ago voters roundly trounced Republican Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald by electing Democrat Frank Murphy in his stead. In the contest to succeed James Couzens in the U. S. Senate, the voters picked Democratic Representative Prentiss M. Brown. Senator Couzens having died during the campaign, the Republicans had one consolation prize. Before Governor Fitzgerald left office he could bestow an honor and an honorarium on some loyal Republican by appointing him to fill out Senator Couzens' unfinished term. This week Mr. Fitzgerald made his choice. Said he: "The high office of United States Senator is nothing...
...newshawks proceeded to ply Governor Landon and Republican Chairman Hamilton about their reason, for meeting. "This last campaign,"said Governor Landon, "has demonstrated that you can't build an effective organization in just four months. That's about what we're going to discuss...
...people of this country with a fair statement of facts. It means intelligent assistance to the Republican members of the United States Congress and, of more importance, the stimulation of the details of party organization. No man or woman who has assumed a position of leadership in the campaign just ended can fail to realize the deep obligation due to the more than sixteen million Americans who voted their convictions. I have expressed to Mr. Hamilton my deep appreciation ... to all of those who joined in the common cause. They will not be abandoned...
...anyway. The heavy blade fell and Mr. Miller observed that "a hideous spurt of blood gushed out." Time elapsed: 26 sec. Three years later, star Reporter Miller turned war-weary eyes on other Frenchmen potting Riffs. In 1930 he hurried from London to cover Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India. While Mr. Miller looked on at Dharasana, native police under the direction of British officials methodically clubbed and booted rank after rank of the Mahatma's supine, unresisting followers. Says Reporter Miller: "I felt an indefinable sense of helpless rage and loathing, almost as much against...
...MOORE-Joseph Hone-Macmillan ($3). First full-length biography of the Irish novelist, interesting for its disclosure of more paradoxes in George Moore's own life than he himself invented. Waging a bitter, successful fight against the English censorship on Zola's books, he discredited a similar campaign on behalf of Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. A reckless spender in the Paris days of the Confessions of a Young Man he carefully saved his own earnings while pretending to be at the gates of the poorhouse, left an estate of ?68,000 which he deposited in three London...