Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first queries to Grandson Elliott was: "Do you think your father gets his swims every day? I wish he wouldn't miss so many." Then to news hawks the President's 81-year-old mother announced: "I don't think my son should campaign this year. The people know whether they want him for another four years. If they don't, he'll get along well enough." While Mrs. Roosevelt was traveling to Texas, some 2,000 U. S. businessmen were assembled in Washington last week for the prime purpose of letting her son know...
...educators, however, feel any strong urge to rule it. Peppery, fox-bearded Superintendent William McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking for a successor to Superintendent Bogan, who died in March, chose his assistant, William Harding Johnson...
...death in 1920, the Pinkhams finally got the offices they wanted. But Mrs. Gove as treasurer and her two daughters as assistant treasurer and vice president continued to throw company counsels out of harmony. The final break came over the question of advertising. The Pinkhams wanted a newspaper campaign. The Goves wanted to go on using the old-fashioned testimonial advertising in magazines and car cards. For months neither side has attended a meeting called by the other...
...racket under his arm, cheering on the troops marching up to the front line; his aide tossing packets of cigarets from a speeding car, and the soldiers stamping them into the mud after he has passed. The German veterans' version of I Want to Go Home: "For this campaign isn't an express train, So wipe your tears away, With sandpaper." The mistier background of the "home front," where "unaccustomed to apply the standards of reality to the speeches of their masters, and demand a reckoning for squandered blood and wasted years, [people] toiled in the factories, fields...
...great figures of his time." The Living Jefferson is not so much a formal biography as a defense of Jeffersonianism. In the last chapters Author Adams applies his hero's attitude to the whole course of U. S. history to date, thus making his book a campaign document that will please neither New Dealers nor Republicans but only such Jeffersonians as still exist...