Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Franklin Roosevelt last week at Little Rock, Ark. and he devoted the better part of his week to detailing his reflections. Month ago when the Press described his trip as his first campaign tour he retorted that his speeches would be historical. Historical they were, each picking an ancient example to point a New Deal moral. Thus by laying the foundation of his campaign upon the stones of history, he strove to answer the Republican contention that the New Deal is perverting the traditional institutions of the U. S. His historical fables at Little Rock, Dallas, Vincennes...
...ceremony he named an executive committee of 16 to meet this week in Topeka and begin overhauling the GOP. He made a speech of four sentences and the meeting was over: "There is no speech left in me, but we are entering here and now a hard and vigorous campaign. I ask only one thing. We are going to make lots of mistakes and many errors of judgment. All I ask is your indulgence in the hope for the election of a Republican President next fall, which I know we are going...
Next morning she had her first, and perhaps last, press conference. Would she take an active part in the campaign? "Not if I have anything to say about it. It's not my place...
...Thorez, head man of French Communism, sought to stem the spontaneous, nationwide strikes, declared: "Strikers must know how to end their strike. They must even know how to consent to a compromise so as not to lose any of their force and especially so as not to facilitate any campaign of reaction...
...Song. After discarding a "We Want Landon" chant and the somewhat tedious Kansas University song, The Crimson and the Blue, the Landonites studied the merits of I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby but finally passed it up as dangerous, catchy though the air is. Official campaign words for Oh! Susanna, with their phrases about "regimented Bunk" and "the dear old Constitution" (TIME, June 15) were turned out by Win Williams and Romney Gifford of the Landon publicity staff...