Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pink fadeouts there were comforting extenuations. Nominee Browder had campaigned far more strenuously against Alf Landon than for himself, persuading many a Red that he might best serve his cause by a vote for Roosevelt. Nominee Thomas, who got a large non-Socialist protest vote in 1932, could reasonably conclude that the electorate this year loved him not less, but Franklin Roosevelt more. In addition, his Party's right wing split off, merged last summer with New York State's American Labor Party. Neither Communists nor Socialists were displeased at losing strength to this new faction, under whose...
...truthful copy, fewer superlatives. In 1935 Saks Fifth Avenue made him their vice president (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Between times he darted off to Europe every summer, predicted Hitler's success six months before the event, advised New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in his 1933 Fusion Campaign, New York's Comptroller McGoldrick in 1934. He lectures to retailing classes at New York University, serves as board chairman to the University in Exile, which provides teaching posts for top-notch German refugees. He headed the group of Philharmonic patrons who canceled their subscriptions when Germany...
...election, most citizens will have already made up a 'little list' of political nuisances of which they have now got rid. One of these is the Literary Digest poll. It will scarcely venture to show its face again in the Congressional elections of 1938 or the Presidential campaign four years from now. That it was so thoroughly discredited this year is not because it was dishonest or unfair in its motives or methods. It certainly will never be again the bogy or oracle as which it had so long figured in our elections. The result on Tuesday...
...Manhattan last week President Arlo Ayres Brown of small Drew University at Madison, N. J. (enrollment: 400), launched a campaign to raise $600,000 additional endowment during the next eight months...
...South Hadley, Mass., retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke broke ground for a new $250,000 chapel, reported encouraging progress in her current campaign for a $10,000,000 college fund. Same time, President Frederick P. Keppel of Carnegie Corporation observed in his annual report that the in come of private educational institutions had started on the upgrade from Depression...