Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straw vote the important thing to note is the trend of public opinion. The Gallup polls show a sharp nation-wide swing away from Roosevelt. In only seven States has there been a gain in his popularity. In the Middle West, the real battleground in this campaign, there has been a general subsidence in the pro-Roosevelt sentiment...
...Townsendites shrilled and roared. Some even leaned out to touch his coat as he passed. Last fortnight Rome buzzed with gossip of a telephone call which Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin had made to the Vatican, belatedly asking permission to take part in the U. S. Presidential campaign. For a month the Political Priest had had a candidate in the field-North Dakota's Representative William Lemke of the Union Party, named for Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice. Last week he turned up in Cleveland to snare Townsend votes...
...black coat, ripped off his Roman collar, plucked out the collar button fastening his neckband. Back to the rostrum, a chunky man in dark pants and open shirt, he leaped to roar: "As far as the National Union is concerned, no candidate which is endorsed for Congress can campaign, go electioneering for, or support the great betrayer and liar, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Montreux Conference was called three months ago to answer Turkey's request to tear up the Treaty of Lausanne and refortify the demilitarized Dardanelles (TIME, April 27). Ever since the Armistice Britain has strenuously opposed such action by Turkey, bitter with memories of her disastrous Gallipoli campaign. Responsible for Britain's interests at Montreux was the 7th Earl Stanhope, intimate friend of Stanley Baldwin...
...British Post Office joined the anti-gas campaign when little, red mail vans began loading the first of 20,000,000 free booklets on how to protect homes from gas and air raids...