Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crow repetition of the same ceremony with Negro school children. Of the 85,000 seats in Georgia Tech's Grant Stadium only some 50,000 were filled but crowds were gathered outside at loudspeakers, the better to hear if not to see. There the President opened the campaign of 1936. After that one excursion the President returned to Warm Springs, the game of polio, his daily outings at the wheel of his car, the comings & goings of official visitors. There in his fine pine paneled living room he heard his radio tell the ghastly tale of how Army scored...
...Atlanta last week Franklin Roosevelt delivered what the 50,000 Georgians who turned out to hear him generally regarded as the first speech of his campaign for reelection. In finest fettle the President clearly demonstrated that after nearly three years in the White House he was still the master stumpster of 1932 who could sway a crowd or a country with his vibrant voice, his buoyant words. He denounced Republican prosperity; he mocked Herbert Hoover (without naming him); he had at his old enemies, the bankers, rich clubmen, budget balancers and the Cassandras of national insolvency; he skipped his failures...
...Washington, in response to a newshawk's question, Mrs. Roosevelt declared that as far as she knew her sons were now driving very carefully. ¶ In Cambridge, Mass., Junior Franklin and Sophomore John announced that they had signed safe-driving pledges as part of a campaign sponsored by the Harvard Crimson...
Enrollment of Cambridge citizens in the Peace Action campaign, the sale of Peace Bonds and Solicitation of Signatures to the People's Mandate comprise the program of the Peace Action Study Group of the Harvard Peace Society for the next week...
Unlike most accounts of the Russian campaign. Napoleon's victories seem, in Caulaincourt's account, almost more 'terrible than the famed retreat from Moscow. Day after day Napoleon's army raced after the fleeing Russians, whose complete disappearance seemed more mysterious and frightening as the troops became exhausted. None of Napoleon's spies returned. Counting on peasants to supply information and food, he found the country deserted. Believing that a battle would lead Alexander to sue for peace, he feverishly pursued an army that spread so widely he could scarcely determine the direction...