Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edmund Arthur Ball of Muncie, member of the rich glass-jar family; and Fred Bays, a dapper, saturnine oldtime dancer and circus man. Him they made Democratic State Chairman, to handle ballyhoo. Besides banners, bands and buttons, Mr. Bays uses tap dancers, a singing cop, contortionists. When the McNutt campaign gets going nationally, the country may see something remarkable...
...Versailles, the treaty that was going to insure the peace of Europe forever and ever, Amen. No celebrations marked the date. Instead, all eyes were on the man who had torn that document to shreds, Adolf Hitler. That day he was on a Bavarian mountain top directing a campaign to reclaim for the German Fatherland the Free City of Danzig, neutralized and placed in customs union with renascent Poland by the treaty-makers. As the Führers well-oiled propaganda machine went into high gear, as his high-powered Army stood by prepared, if need be, to enforce...
...Indiana's Paul Vories McNutt landed in California from the Philippines. His friend Senator Minton announced: "The entire McNutt campaign is predicated on the assumption the President will...
...Washington Star, a conservative paper which rarely looks promotion in the face, admired the Post's campaign, made a deal with Publishers Service Inc., a Stern promotion subsidiary to take it over, cleansed completely of its voucher-clipping taint. The Star organized a National Committee for Music Appreciation, plugged the Committee and music in general to the top of its bent, began distributing records last February at $1.39 per set. Distribution to last week: 62,000 sets. And the Star beamed benignly as the Committee offered the album scheme to other papers-always with the stipulation: no coupons...
...Also free to any broadcaster who will use them are the National Association of Manufacturers' two radio programs, items in its $750,000-a-year campaign to get the Government off U. S. business' neck. One of these programs, a dramatic serial called The American Family Robinson, is over four years old, goes out twice a week or oftener over 250 stations by electrical Tanscription, talks Alger-book homilies, free enterprise and the American...