Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning of election day doubtless reduced the size of last week's vote, Townsendism as a vote-getter made no impressive record considering that, of Republican Main's predecessors, one in 1934 polled 41,000 votes, another in 1932 polled 49,000 votes. Moreover, the Main campaign was endorsed by Michigan's Governor Fitzgerald and Senator Vandenberg, both of whom are opposed to Townsendism. Winner Main himself estimated, after the election, that about 8,000 to 10,000 of his votes derived from his support of the Townsend Plan...
...United Kingdom least sympathetic to the League of Nations. A nationwide peace ballot proved last summer that at least 11,000,000 British voters are highly sympathetic to the League. When as Prime Minister it became Stanley Baldwin's object to win the General Election, his outstanding campaign move was to convince the electorate that the Baldwin Cabinet and the Conservative Party had become highly sympathetic to the League. They had not only become highly sympathetic, but they also gave the further impression that if they won the election they would bend every effort to securing a major triumph...
That was not nearly enough for Mr. Odets' associates, the Group Theatre. To make sure that Paradise Lost was kept afloat, the organization put on an extraordinary campaign, buying newspaper space to testify...
...Davies went to Washington from Watertown, Wis. in the days of the New Freedom. White-haired, black-browed, fluent, he was Woodrow Wilson's western campaign manager. Staying on in Washington through the lean Republican 1920's, he practiced international law, his clients including the Governments of Mexico and Peru. All the New Deal brought him was the job held by Dolly Curtis Gann's husband, who represented President Trujillo Molina of Santo Domingo in Washington. Currently Joe Davies is Dictator Trujillo's personal counsel...
...tried thyroid extract but doctors told her it was dangerous. Last summer she took up tennis, horseback riding, mountain climbing-still without dropping a pound. Finally she went to Manhattan's Dr. Gerald Schuman who put her on the successful diet. It was a hard, quiet campaign. Said her attorney: "She refused an offer of $5,000 to endorse a reducing salt...