Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four days he and his 2,000 men-stiff-fezzed Askaris and undrilled Danakil tribesmen, backed by a battery of moun- tain artillery mounted on camels-had made the most spectacular forced march of the entire Ethiopian campaign. To protect the flank of Italy's main army of the north with its spearhead at Makale, they had gone where no white men had ever gone before, skirting the blazing Danakil Desert, then up over the bitter cold highlands facing the Derdega Mountains. One thing General Mariotti knew: Degiac Kassa Sebat was ahead of him with an indefinite number...
...United Kingdom last week by the world's foremost Conservatives. Everyone had expected them to win (TIME, Nov. 18) but warming to their Capitalist cockles was the post-election firming up last week of sterling, sound City shares and Treasury bonds. Though dull as a whole, the campaign had provided just enough brickbats and pieces of lead pipe hurled by Britain's unique proletariat safely over Conservative candidates' heads. There were no bloody riots, best of all no facing of grim domestic issues like the Dole. With genial intuition and not too brazenly, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
...Orleans (see above) a definitive exposition of the current business viewpoint. Commented Financial Editor Ralph Hendershot of the pro-Roosevelt New York World-Telegram: "Few speeches have ever been made . . . which presented the position of so-called big business so well. . . . The Republican party could build its entire campaign around his speech...
...precedent is needed for such action, there is plenty of it. Until last year the students at Yale University suffered in the same way. At that time the Yale News demanded the entire Thanks giving weekend; students supported this campaign with hundreds of pledges, and the gods of New Haven granted their request...
Over a thousand safety pledge were signed yesterday by members of the faculty and undergraduates in the college in the first day of the campaign conducted by the CRIMSON against reckless driving...