Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately after the current Presidential campaign's liveliest rally to date, Nominee Knox headed back East in his special train, stopped frequently to address crowds large and small. When the Roald Amundsen, his private car, reached Chicago, Frank Knox's tour had ticked off 9,000 miles from Maine to California...
Just as Franklin Roosevelt began last week to take an interest in active campaigning (see p. 11). Alf Landon set out from Topeka on his third campaign trip. Before the trip was over it looked to several observers as if Governor Landon, too, had suddenly decided to enter the campaign. Instead of delivering temperate generalities such as he has in most previous appearances, he made three major speeches, each devoted to a single issue, each making a strong bid for support in the region where it was delivered...
...enrolled in a Landon First Voters League indicated that they had missed either the New Yorker cartoon or its point when they organized a "Victim of Future Taxes" unit, sent out a "Barrel Show" to tour the city and Eastern college campuses. Doing their bit in the current GOP campaign to persuade the nation that Franklin Roosevelt is somehow to blame for local, municipal, county and State as well as Federal taxes, a young man and three professional women models appear in garments from which parts of sleeves, skirts, crowns and toes have been scissored. A young woman dressed...
Thus ended the honeymoon-campaign tour of Democrat Ruth Bryan Owen, retired U. S. Minister to the Court of King Christian of Denmark and Captain Boerge Rohde of His Danish Majesty's Life Guards...
With the presence in Palestine last week of crisp, determined Lieutenant-General John Greer Dill, newly appointed Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Palestine, and the arrival at Haifa of a thousand British troops daily, there began with a vengeance the British Government's "mopping-up campaign" against Arabs who five months ago declared a general strike and began raising Ned in general to protest against Jewish immigration. In a brisk clash last week near Jenin between Arab citizens and British land & air forces, 53 Arabs and one British soldier were killed. All over the country Arabs were...