Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seems to me you have overlooked a very important part of their campaign, which consisted in their no less strenuous combats to get cash from their various and sundry State governments. In these engagements they were uniformly successful all along the line. I know that some twelve years ago my State of Illinois, after a hot campaign in which the opponents of the bonus were branded as being unpatriotic and slackers, voted them a State bonus, and $55,000,000 worth of bonds were sold in order...
...Leader Jose Maria Gil Robles, offered "Anti-Revolution," meaning, to the women, suppression of divorce; to the churchmen, support of the Catholic Church in Spain; to the Monarchists, the Monarchy. Finally Premier Manuel Portela Valladares' Centrist Government offered "Neutrality," qualified by political alliance with the Right. In the campaign the Government reserved the radio entirely for itself. With only eight dead, 32 wounded, the election was called "the most peaceful in years." Results: At week's beginning, the Left seemed to have raised its Cortes membership from 107 to at least 230, largely by sweeping the rebellious province...
...letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through the picket line under a tear-gas barrage laid down by Police Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless the distillery agreed to cease...
...three days after Candidate Borah's announcement, Franklin Roosevelt had the Senator in to share his lunch on the Presidential desk. On arrival, Mr. Borah gladly posed for photographers with his hand upon the White House door knob. On departure, he was asked whether he had discussed the campaign with the President...
...money. Last autumn the San Francisco Opera peaked its artistic career by presenting Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen at a cost of some $80,000 (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week President Wallace M. Alexander of the Opera Association announced a deficit of $45,000, recommended a begging campaign for $50,000 to insure another season...