Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President shall serve more than two terms. All living ex-Presidents and all Supreme Court Justices over 70 shall automatically become members of a foreign policy board, for life, to advise the incumbent President on and to help administer the foreign policy of the U. S. A., especially during campaign years and while administrations are changing...
...Franklin Roosevelt's new Federal Security Administrator, Paul Vories McNutt, was confirmed in office last week by the Senate. He promptly proceeded to evacuate the Public Health Service (one of his charges) from its handsome three-story stone home on Constitution Avenue. "Finest campaign headquarters in America," cracked an observer, and at White House press conference, reporters asked Franklin Roosevelt sly questions about his appointee's chances for the 1940 nomination. This irritated the President, who lectured his hearers about reading political implications into the appointment. But he, too, was sly. He explained that Indiana's McNutt...
Favorite dodge of the authors of this spooky reportage was to link their stories to the activities of Otto Abetz, recently expelled Nazi agent, credited with organizing the pro-Hitler "France-Germany Society" and with having directed a pro-German press campaign during the Munich Crisis. Left papers added a new touch by substituting the initials of recognizable prominent Rightists, instead of the conventional Mr. X, as having been caught in the dragnet. As stories grew to first-class scandal proportions, Premier Daladier stepped in, warned newspapers that real or imagery revelations of the Government's press inquiry would...
...long wished to return to Italy. A recall so sudden that the British Government first learned of it from news dispatches came, however, as a surprise. Two months ago in a speech at the Embassy he violated diplomatic good manners by accusing Great Britain of a "foolish and criminal campaign of lies" against Germany and Italy and scoffing at the democracies' "furious impotence." But it was hinted that the Ambassador had spoken as a result of explicit orders from Rome and under protest, for he has been considered a moderate. Optimistic Britons hoped last week that his recall indicated...
...came the Ethiopian War and with it came Galeazzo Ciano's chance to become a hero. He went to Italian East Africa to fly. There he organized the most publicized nights in the East African campaign. His instructors rated him as a very mediocre pilot but he started the war by dropping the first bombs over Aduwa. His plane was the first to be hit by an enemy bullet. He was the first Italian flier to land in Addis Ababa at the war's end. For all this Galeazzo was promoted to the rank of major...