Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be done to regulate the influx of foreign funds ("hot money," he called it) whose sudden withdrawal might cause a stockmarket panic. No, he still did not think any new taxes would be necessary. Yes, he would not be surprised if John Gilbert Winant, who resigned during the campaign, should return to head the Social Security Board.* No, he had not given any thought to filling vacant posts in his official family. On only two points was he at all definite: He urged the U.S. people this year as always to celebrate Thanksgiving on the last Thursday in November...
...bright afternoon he bundled his good friend, Under Secretary of Agriculture & Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell, into an open automobile, whisked him out of Washington and out of the shadowy silence in which he had been discreetly kept during the campaign. Their goal was Greenbelt, $10,000,000 model suburb which Dr. Tugwell is building on 8,000 rolling Maryland acres five miles north of the District of Columbia. For the handsomest braintruster, this display of Presidential favor came at a critical moment. Congress last session had refused to appropriate funds for his Resettlement Administration, forcing him to confine...
...include in one group all the workers in an industry. The remaining third of the A.F. of L. have united into the Committee for Industrial Organization under John L. Lewis, and at this moment are locked in a struggle with the steel companies, the first battle in their campaign to bring all labor into industrial unions. Last winter the Executive Council of the Federation suspended the unions of the C.I.O. This week the Federation will probably expel the insurgents...
...Once the campaign is under way the fund-raiser keeps discreetly in the background. Literature is mailed under the college letterhead from a separate office engaged for the campaign, so that many contributors never realize that an outsider is involved. A corps of personal interviewers is organized from among alumni and friends of the institution and armed by the fund-raiser with names and arguments. Colleges are not so shy as they used to be about hiring outside fund-raising help, but the prejudice against it persists. Princeton has engaged John Price Jones and Tamblyn & Brown to make preliminary studies...
...FEAR CAME-John T. Whitaker- Macmillan ($2.50). Troubled volume by a foreign correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, whose reluctant disillusionment with the League of Nations was crystallized as an eyewitness of Mussolini's Ethiopian campaign...