Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lives in quiet, sporting affluence, with a country cottage at Long Beach and a town apartment near the northwest corner of Central Park, appeared with his lawyer at the D. A.'s office to submit to arrest. It was the crowning sensation of a three-year campaign to roust racketeers out of Manhattan. It was also the biggest act yet in the career of Thomas Edmund Dewey, now 36, who three years ago, when Governor Lehman appointed him special rackets prosecutor in New York City, was an obscure Republican lawyer, who seven months ago, on the strength...
...times governments change, and within the Cabinet of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye change has long been expected. Premier Konoye has faced the demands of industrialists and "moderate" military men in his Cabinet that Japan halt her offensive and limit the campaign to the occupation of the "conquered" territory. On the other hand, the Cabinet's military ' "extremists" insist that Japan push on to the final goal, i. e., control of all of China and the fall of Chiang Kaishek...
...Minister of Education, to whip up the "spiritual mobilization" of the country, Premier Konoye appointed egg-bald, creamy-voiced General Baron Sadao Araki, fiery War Minister during the Manchurian campaign. At the extremity of the "extremists," General Araki is an open advocate of a campaign to strike at Russia while she is internally weak and ram her out of Vladivostok. Appointed as Finance Minister was white-haired, white-mustached, Harvard-educated Seihin Ikeda, former managing director of the vast Mitsui industrial empire...
...announcement came last night of the prolonging of the drive for a second ambulance for Loyalist Spain, news was received of the formation of a committee of undergraduates to consider a campaign for a fund to send an ambulance to the Spanish Insurgents...
...have contributed, but the size of their gifts is smaller. "There has been no organized solicitation from students, since the committee thought that voluntary gifts were more in the spirit of such a charitable drive; no money was raised in the Medical School since they carried on an independent campaign a few months...