Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of these visitors, however, matched in importance a group of 27 who descended in a body on Hyde Park one afternoon. For three long months of an important political campaign Franklin Roosevelt had not appeared before the public save in his full magisterial dignity as President of the U. S. In that non-partisan role he lost little if any campaigning advantage. Although he could not directly attack his political opponent, he could draw audiences, obtain free radio time, effectively expound his own political doctrines not as though seeking power but with the noble air of using his power...
...vocabulary of Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, there is no more contemptuous adjective than "Farleyized." Tirelessly he has belabored Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley as a veritable monster of spoils-manship, a brass-conscienced destroyer of good government. Early in the campaign, Chairman Farley plaintively inquired:"We're both in the same racket. Why does he take digs at me?"Since then he has treated Chairman Hamilton to the ultimate political insult of silence, ignoring him with the contempt of a St. Bernard for a yapping Pekingese. Only when the Republican Chairman backed up his Vice...
Opening a powerful Roosevelt campaign here, Harvard Democrats met last night with representatives from other Massachusetts colleges to map out their preliminary plans. They formed the University Porgressive Committees supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Proclaiming that positions in his cabinet will be open to men of all parties and that Chairman Hamilton will not receive that usual sugarplum of campaign managers, the job of Postmaster-General, Governor Landon has attempted to portray himself as the St. George of civil service reform. One would like not to dispute the good intentions of the Kansas executive, for a government staff capable of rendering efficient service in modern conditions is one of the crying needs of the country. But aside from the obvious fact that cabinet positions hardly rest in a class with the rank and file...
...personal relationship of horse & buggy days between manufacturer and customer, suggested that it might be restored, in part at least, by the proper type of corporate copy. Good basis for N. W. Ayer's reasoning existed in the fact that the firm has handled the most successful institutional campaign ever run in the U. S., that of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. So well has this campaign worked that by now most people tend to differentiate between A. T. & T.. the Institution, and the Telephone Company, which sends the bills...