Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AAAdministrator Chester Davis were early callers, "bringing the President up to date on our activities." To bolster their corn-hog vote campaign (see col. 3), they later got a statement out of the President in which he declared AAA was on the books to stav. "It was never the idea of the men who framed the Act," said President Roosevelt, ". . . that the AAA should be either a mere emergency operation or a static agency. It was their intention, as it is mine, to pass from the purely emergency phases necessitated by a grave national crisis to a longtime, more permanent...
Other nations were treated last week to a British general election campaign waged on the gravest issues of foreign policy with complete abandon and free speech...
Mistake No. 3: When Ethiopia's wily Emperor ran true to immemorial form, balking Italian concessionaires and bilking II Duce with the too-shrewd tricks of an Afric people's despot, Dictator Mussolini made the cardinal mistake of not educating world public opinion by a campaign of publicity such as Germany has waged for years, yowling from every vantage point how she has been wronged...
...face but capable of being upheld years hence by some august tribunal of international lawyers is Italy's claim that the Pact, as interpreted by onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg permits almost any act of "self defense" and that Italy did not formally open her campaign against Ethiopia until after the Ethiopian mobilization order...
...Buzz" Windrip raved like a madman, assisted in his ravings by his creepy publicity agent and fixer, Lee Sarason. His followers got publicity by making speeches in strange places, such as copper mines, fishing fleets, sporting houses. His supporters were organized as the Forgotten Men, sang a goofy campaign song ("Buzz and buzz"), beat up Reds, Jeffersonians, innocent bystanders, lumping them together as the Antibuzz. His program, based on sharing the wealth, was as emphatic as it was meaningless. He claimed to be just a plain, simple, common man. He told bad jokes. He was elected...