Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia law firm and of a Philadelphia lawyer, onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper. A stanch Republican, a devout Episcopalian whose portly figure is as familiar in Philadelphia as the facade of Independence Hall, Lawyer Pepper set a U. S. record for per-vote campaign expenditures when he ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1926 ($2.42 per Bepper ballot...
...psychopathic drunkard called Marsden (Earle Larimore). He did not keep mice in his bedroom but he killed bugs when a boy. He, too, terrified the inhabitants of a gloomy Manhattan mansion. Marsden had been abused by an equally liquorish father when a child, which accounted for the fiendish campaign he put on to terrify his wife (Barbara Robbins) into giving him a son of his own to torture. Since Marsden makes no effort to temper his dangerous lunacy to the other five members of an excellent cast, they all have good reasons for shooting him. In the middle...
...campaign began a week ago Thursday when Dean Hanford and the board of the Crimson signed the first pledges. From that time pledges have been distributed throughout the College...
After being active in the Women's Suffrage Campaign, Miss duPont has devoted much of her time to the cause of peace. A member of The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, she is helping in the campaign to obtain signatures to The People's Mandate. This is a petition demanding of governments immediate cessation of war and all preparations for war, and use of the existing machinery for peace. Being circulated now in 44 countries, the goal is 20 million signatures in the United States and 15 thousand in Cambridge...
...hope of the Council that embargoes include loans and credit, copper, cotton, and minerals. The object of the campaign is to stay out of war, not to remain neutral. Neutrality implies freedom of the seas, but by such legislation, the demands of neutrality are relinquished and peace is the only objective...