Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appraising Western reaction to Tom Dewey's first G.O.P. campaign speech last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 18), Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota dryly reported "rather a deep interest in what Mr. Dewey's policies will be." Aspirant Dewey in his second full-dress speech last week
Herr Thyssen began to preach the Nazi good word among his colleagues. In the 1933 election, in which the Nazis finally won, he contributed some 3,000,000 marks ($1,200,000) toward the Hitler campaign fund. In early January, 1933, at the Cologne home of one of Herr Thyssen's friends, Adolf Hitler had met Franz von Papen, onetime Chancellor, and concluded a political alliance. Old President von Hindenburg, apprised that Papen's Nationalists as well as the big industrialists were behind Hitler, gave in at last and appointed Hitler Chancellor...
...Gehrig Cup. Emblematic of the national high-school football championship, the big, silver trophy will be awarded annually to the winner of Miami's "Health Bowl" game. Scheduled for Christmas night this year, its proceeds will be donated to the "Fight Infantile Paralysis Campaign...
Burden of Mr. Sargent's anti-war song: It is plain that Britain is systematically and subtly poisoning U. S. minds, hopes to get the U. S. into this war in jig-time. Director of this campaign, says he, is Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser of the Foreign Office; among its chief agents are Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to Washington. Their U. S. victims to date: President Roosevelt, Ambassadors Joseph Kennedy and William Bullitt, Paul McNutt, the U. S. press, the House of Morgan, the Foreign Policy Association, such educators as Harvard's James...
...spite of all, asserts Porter Sargent, Britain's campaign had failed to shake U. S. pacifism until Russia last month attacked Finland. Says he: "What an opportunity for propagandists to inflame idealistic emotions! The last straw to bring...