Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still implies an endorsement of the company union, but at least it does not now hold that a union organizer is 'outside interference'. . . . The principle he has now stated would seem to recognize the right of the Committee on Industrial Organization to carry on the steel campaign and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union to organize the sharecroppers and field-workers in Arkansas without being subject to the tyranny of local sheriffs...
James Aloysius Farley last week transferred his base of operations from Washington to Manhattan, his job from part-time Postmaster General to full-time chairman of the Democratic National Committee (TIME, July 20). Three days before making this ectoplasmic shift for the duration of the campaign, he announced the appointment of Franklin D. Roosevelt's great & good friend Frank Comerford Walker, onetime head of the dormant National Emergency Council and Democratic National Treasurer in 1932, as active chairman of the Democratic National Finance Committee...
Regardless of whether there is still a great ''church vote" in the U. S. today, churchmen throughout the land like to think of themselves as potent opinion-makers in any election year. Although the 1936 Presidential campaign officially got under way only last week, U. S. men of God were already assuming their roles in it. Editorialized The Christian Evangelist, organ of the Disciples of Christ: "We do not recall any other recent Presidential contest in which the Ins and the Outs tried so vigorously to capture for their respective parties the sanctions and blessings of organized religion...
With the Presidential campaign coming to a boil, Publisher McCormick is prepared to use all his journalistic resources to try to defeat Franklin D. Roosevelt. Therefore, Tribune readers last week confidently expected to see on Page 1 more & more of able Cartoonist Orr's aggressive New Deal attacks, while Cartoonist Joe Parrish backs him up by interpreting McCormick ideas on the editorial page...
...Manchester, N. H. last week for a brief campaign speech to his onetime fellow townsmen was Republican Vice Presidential Nominee William Franklin Knox of Chicago. It was in Manchester that Frank Knox gained newspaper fame as publisher of the Manchester Union and Leader which he still owns. While he was there last week his papers carried the saddest dispatch they had ever printed. In Boston 55 miles away a Federal District Court ordered the immediate liquidation of Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., biggest cotton textile mill in the U. S. and Manchester's principal industry...