Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels of the ever-increasing drive throughout the State against reckless driving, a safety campaign will open this morning in the University...
Totally unimpressed was the State of New York's lively Bureau of Milk Publicity. First two months after its undignified campaign began. State milk consumption jumped 8,000,000 quarts over the same period last year...
...every drunkard knows, cold milk soothes seething stomachs. Last summer the State of New York set out to acquaint novice tipplers with this useful fact. In 1933 the State Legislature had laid a tax of 1? per cwt. on milk, half the proceeds to go for an advertising campaign designed to up milk consumption. The 1934 campaign, conducted by the State Department of Health, was a model of dignified propriety, cost $400,000, upped milk consumption not a quart. Last July the job was turned over to the State Department of Agriculture & Markets, which promptly hired a professional advertising agency...
...Lawyer Morris Leopold Ernst took a quick trip to Europe & back. Last week Doubleday, Doran & Co., publishers, along with Doubleday, Doran Bookshops, Inc., retail booksellers, sued R. H. Macy & Co. for price-cutting on Doubleday books. Whether or not publisher and lawyer had gone abroad to plan their campaign in the privacy of the high seas, their action involved the validity of the Feld-Crawford Fair Trade Act, affected Listerine, Lysol, Jello, Postum, many another nonliterary product...
Main speaker of the day, Sir Norman Angell, British economist, talked little upon the proposed subject of the meeting, "Shall the United States Forbid All Exports to Italy?" but veered off to a campaign speech on why all the nations of the world, in effect, the United States should join the League. He entreated that "in international problems, power should be transferred from the litigant to the law. Pledge your support to the law of civilization, not to the litigant. This is anarchy...