Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little publicized spring campaign in North Hupeh-a campaign which the Japanese hoped would eventually land them in Chungking-resulted in the greatest Chinese success of the war since they defeated the Japanese at Taierchwang in the spring of 1938. Opposing the 100,000 Japanese was the crack Kwangsi Army of General Li Tsung-jen, hero of Taierchwang. General Li caught the Japanese spread out in the North Hupeh hills, threw them back with a loss of 27,000 men. Significantly, no farther than three or four miles back of the Japanese lines in this battle Chinese guerrillas were busy...
...Duke of Wellington slept in during the Waterloo campaign...
...Emile Gauvreau, later editor of Bernarr Macfadden's late New York Graphic. The Courant readers (44.000 daily, 67,000 Sunday) get for their 4? no big headlines but plenty of features, local titbits, hobby news. Today the Old Lady is reaping the reward of her most impressive campaign, a consistent fight on Prohibition. Hard pressed by Frank Gannett's Evening Times, which refuses liquor advertising, the Courant enjoys about $50,000 worth a year...
This week the Federation urged its 60 affiliated groups to campaign against the use in schools of textbooks which carry anti-advertising propaganda. With its message went a pamphlet attacking a text which the Federation considers particularly obnoxious: An Introduction to Problems of American Culture by Professor Harold Rugg of Columbia Teachers College...
Starting his campaign without help from Manhattan brokerage houses, which had no desire to exchange shots with National City interests, young "Lang" Williams spent two years collecting proxies, saw his ammunition dump scattered to the four winds of Depression in the frenzied selling of the fall of 1929. But carrying the banner for his family house he started over again, by April 1930 had gathered enough proxy shot & shell to dislodge the Swenson management...