Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genesis of this campaign against labor in the House of Representatives is not hard to find. It is within the Democratic party. It runs across to the Senate of the United States and emanates there from a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, evil old man whose name is Garner...
Repercussions continued. Unpurged Millard Tydings of Maryland tried to add to the Spend-Lend Bill a rider prohibiting any organization from contributing to a political campaign-fund any money not specifically assessed for that purpose. (This was aimed at the famed $470,000 loan by Lewis' United Mine Workers to the Democratic party...
...bowing out, because I have not bowed in. Senator Taft is a very capable man, and I think he would make a good President." This statement-of-the-week was made by Ohio's Governor John William Bricker, who announced at Columbus that he will not campaign to be Ohio's favorite Republican son next year. Senator Taft: "I appreciate his kind words." In last week's Gallup poll on candidates preferred ahead of Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Taft's name did not appear among the first eleven Republicans. Ahead of him were Dewey, Vandenberg, LaGuardia, Borah...
Last week Publisher Johnson gave a banquet for 300 businessmen at The Copley-Plaza, followed by such a promotion campaign as Boston newspaperdom has never known. Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, sound trucks, radio speakers and an airplane sign-trailer all shouted the news of the Transcript's "Newscope Edition." Two days later, when the Newscope Edition appeared, Beacon Street saw, instead of the Transcript's dowdy old front page, a bold, five-column layout, of which nearly two columns were pictures. The text frankly aped TIME'S news treatment...
...Deal Ideas. In 1932 Wendell Willkie gave $150 to the Roosevelt campaign fund. The time came when he announced that he would like to have it back, but that was later. For Willkie and Roosevelt had quite a few ideas in common. Willkie made no attempt to hide his opinion that business had sinned in 1929 and should take its punishment. He plumped for Federal regulation of holding companies, conceded that utilities that bought Federal power should be subject to Federal regulation of rates...