Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, passing through Chicago on his way home to Stanford University from a campaign trip in the East, Herbert Hoover paused to issue a statement, his first on the subject of his candidacy for 1936. Excerpt...
...Dome") Sinclair, whom he knew as a fellow townsman in Independence, Kans., as a Kansas University fraternity brother, as a fellow oilman. Alf Landon says he has not even seen Harry Sinclair in at least six years, perhaps ten. No one has yet accused Candidate Landon of accumulating a campaign slush fund, a charge usually hurled about this time at any candidate who gets out in front in the race for the Presidential nomination. Last week his Kansas City Campaign Chairman Oscar Stauffer could not "remember offhand" who had supplied the biggest Landon campaign contribution to date...
...Republican Campaign: The Republican Party must proceed along sound and progressive lines. . . . Progressive government . . . can succeed only when accompanied by careful preparation, competent administration and sound fiscal policies...
...bill's administration managers promptly accepted a prevailing wage amendment offered by Massachusetts' Connery, let it be voted through after five minutes' discussion. Understanding was that, at prevailing hourly rates. WPA employes would work fewer hours for the same total pay. Explanation of this magnanimous campaign-year gesture toward Labor was that in his secret testimony before the Appropriations Committee, revealed last week, Harry Hopkins had told Congressmen that WPA was already paying prevailing wages almost everywhere in the land. Average WPA pay, he disclosed, ranged" from $23.93 per month in North Carolina "to $72.23 per month...
...Italian General was the first recognition of any foreign government that the conquest of Ethiopia is now an accomplished fact. Meanwhile one of Marshal Badoglio's most dapper staff officers. Captain Adolfo Alessandri, dug his Sunday inspection breeches and best white gloves from the bottom of his campaign trunk, visited in turn every foreign legation in Addis Ababa. Clicking his heels he explained politely that each envoy would enjoy "every diplomatic privilege until the time of your departure." It was Italy's first official notification to the world that henceforth Ethiopia was not even to be considered another...