Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solemnly facing the microphone. Senator Vandenberg began: "I respectfully address myself to Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his personal capacity in this campaign as a candidate for re-election to the Presidency of the United States. May I ask you, Mr. Roosevelt, to refresh my recollection as to precisely what you said regarding the Constitution of the United States when you were inaugurated as President...
...Justice at Detroit's Fair Grounds. One listener not a member of the National Union was Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, onetime Wichita, Kans. automobile accessories dealer, now chiefly interested in promoting peace by means of sudden dramatic appearances with a bag of feathers. This punchinello of the 1936 political campaign first received public notice and fell into the hands of the police in June when, attired in red shorts and an Indian war bonnet, he strewed his feathers all over Philadelphia's Broad Street to impress convening Democrats with his slogan: "Feathers Instead of Bullets." Half-naked Mr. Hockaday...
Suddenly Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic campaign drove Composer Fritz Cohen from Germany. This compelled Kurt Jooss to go touring, although his dancers still needed more training. The troupe gained grace and prestige with the addition of Hans Zuellig, 22-year-old Swiss (The Big City) and pretty Noelle de Mosa, 19, a Java-born Dutch baroness. Both conform to the Jooss type, employ the widest and most theatrical use of pantomime...
...convened for its 65th annual meeting. The new president is Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. The old disease is syphilis. The conjunction of these two was of large medical importance because Surgeon General Parran is now well launched on a nationwide campaign to bring this venereal disease out into the open and under control. Today, though exact figures are lamentably lacking, it is expertly estimated that one U. S. citizen out of ten is afflicted with syphilis...
...York City's Health Commissioner John Levi Rice, who does more than any other municipal health officer to support the Parran campaign, last week revealed another new method in the U. S. fight against venereal disease. The 827 municipal clinics throughout the U. S. where venereals may receive free or cheap treatment, get only a fraction of the victims. Of the rest, some do not know that they are infected, while the rest shamefacedly sneak to quacks, urologists, and skin specialists. Henceforth the 14,000 doctors of New York City are to function as "shock troops...