Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first week of the critical 52 he saw that an unpleasant choice would soon be forced upon him: to suppress his personal feelings for the Public Utility Act while legal taunts and political insults are heaped upon it, or to carry the fight against holding companies into the 1936 campaign, thereby making it impossible for him to turn right and cotton to Business...
...rumble of content, Sir John Cadman, alert Board Chairman of Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd.,* learned last week that Lloyd's was offering insurance odds of 10-to-1 favoring the Baldwin Government to win Britain's general election Nov. 14. Confident Conservatives were saying at campaign headquarters: "The Government are as much embarrassed by the attacks of Lloyd George and Snowden as a lion facing two gnats." Presently a secretary told Tycoon Cadman that Gnat Lloyd George had declared in what he meant for a stinging attack on His Majesty's Government: "Sanctions will not stop...
Chief characteristic of "Dave" Stern is his pugnacious aggressiveness. A practicing journalist who puts a high price on the power of his editorials, he picked up the New Brunswick (N. J.) Times in 1912, sold it at a profit after a clean-up campaign against the local government, moved on to Springfield, Ill. repeated the process, went back East and did almost the same trick with the Camden, N. J. Evening Courieer and Morning Post. The Philadelphia Record was a down-at-heel Democratic rag in a Republican city when Publisher Stern took it over. In Philadelphia it now ranks...
...Steel held its third-quarter loss to $1,305,000 against nearly $10,000,000 in the corresponding 1934 period. It has started a $140,000,000 plant improvement campaign, but an improvement in railroad and heavy structural steels would be more valuable from the standpoint of immediate profits...
Last fortnight, Frederick Britten Austin, an oldtime romancer, added to the 40,000-odd books that have been written about Napoleon a volume, ''a novel and not a history," dealing with the four critical months of the First Italian Campaign. Since its details are historically accurate, and since the author's characterization of Napoleon as an individual is monotonous, The Road to Glory is most interesting in its accounts of battles, of strategy and the arts of war. When Mr. Austin's Napoleon plans a flank or breaks all the rules by storming a bridge...