Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime an Indian with his shirt tail out, smoked glasses over his eyes and a battered Army campaign hat on his head climbed aboard the Houston. This was Chief Olo-Benanya of the San Blas come to call on Chief Franklin Roosevelt of the U. S. Chief Olo-Benanya spoke no English and Chief Roosevelt spoke no Chibchan. Nevertheless, the Indian managed to barter some spears and a handful of sharks' teeth for several cartons of cigarets from Mr. Roosevelt. This deal accomplished, the Presidential party sailed up the squally Caribbean, planning to land at Charleston...
...Political Section, League of Nations Secretariat; Peter Koinage, formerly resident of Kenya, South Africa, whose father is a tribal leader of three million people Hiving near the Ethiopian border; Captain G. F. Sherwood, reserve Officer in the British Army who commanded native regiments in the German East African Campaign...
...effort to rally as much support as possible in the campaign for repeal of the Teacher's Oath Bill, a meeting will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Phillips Brooks House. The meeting will be open to all members of the University, and the sponsors of this move hope to enlist the aid of the student bodies of their various colleges in the fight for repeal of the statute recently passed by the legislature...
Representatives from Simmons, Radcliffe, Tufts, Boston University, and Harvard met at PBH yesterday afternoon to formulate a definite program for this campaign. It was decided that student-faculty committees should be organized on all campuses in Massachusetts to carry on repeal propaganda, and the following petition was drafted which will be circulated in all Bay State colleges...
...John Carter, who also writes under the name of Jay Franklin, no writer has admitted responsibility for The New Dealers, American Messiahs or Our Lords and Masters. Most political-literary gossips ascribe authorship to John Carter and Ernest K. Lindley, author of The Roosevelt Revolution and of a campaign biography of Franklin Roosevelt. Born in Richmond, Ind., in 1899, Author Lindley was a Rhodes Scholar, worked on the New York World and Herald Tribune as political commentator, is married, has two sons, now lives in Washington. Author Carter, formerly on the staff of the New York Times Book Review, left...