Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Holcombe stated that the only issue in this campaign is "the character of the candidates." He cited Roosevelt's failure to indorse James M. Curley for election to the Senate as an example of the former's political courage...
This is the first in a series of articles by members of the Faculty explaining their stand in the present political campaign...
...permit the word "syphilis" to go out over the air from its stations. National Broad casting this year gingerly permitted Dr. Parran and two other authorities to mention the word in broadcasts. On the other hand the Press has made a notable response to Dr. Parran's campaign to get syphilis out into the open...
...Louis meeting of the Na tional Society for the Prevention of Blind ness. Last year breaks in the taboo began appearing far & wide. The Chicago Tribune published three full-page articles on syphilis in its Sunday editions. In New York, the News (circulation 1,629,000), put on a campaign to publicize syphilis with news stories, editorials, cartoons, has sold 16,054 reprints at 5? each. The more conservative New York Herald Tribune and New York Times began putting the word "syphilis"into their headlines. By last week some 125 newspapers of some 100 communities had mentioned "venereal disease...
...crop are 33,330,000 Ib. compared with a bumper yield of 95,340,000 Ib. in 1935. Not one cent will be earned by the Texas nut grove of the most eminent U. S. pecan grower, John Nance Garner. Just before he broadcast his only campaign speech from his home in Uvalde, the Vice President let it be known that his pecans were this year a total failure, declaring: "I'm just leaving the whole crop for the squirrels...