Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Long then began his New Orleans campaign for the Governorship with the reassuring statement that his "hands were clean." But at this point the Federal Government showed interest in why the tax-racket hearings had been stopped. One of Attorney General Frank Murphy's "smart boys," Harold Rosenwald, announced that the Federal Grand Jury would immediately start hearings. Earl Kemp Long kept mum. But he and all Louisiana were aware that only Earl's boss, Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, still remained untouched by the tidal wave that in four months has washed up nearly...
Meanwhile, His Excellency Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, although having his troubles with Mohandas K. Gandhi's Indian National Congress party which last week began a campaign of noncooperation and threatened one of civil disobedience, was swamped with 300 other princely protestations of loyalty and extravagant promises of support delivered in person or by telegraph to New Delhi. > The 60-year-old Maharaja of Bikaner (19 guns), also a lieutenant general, who has fought for his King-Emperor on three continents (China, Egypt, France), enlarged Britain's war chest by a personal gift...
Spiritual and terrorist leader of Palestine's Arabs, the Mufti two years ago escaped to Syria, where French authorities, never very cooperative with the British in that part of the world, allowed him to continue to direct the Palestine terrorist campaign. Fortnight ago. however, French authorities arrested several of his followers, tightened the guard around his residence, appeared willing finally to cooperate with Britain in putting down any nascent Arab rebellion. This was inconvenient to the Mufti. He soon disappeared. He was reported to have escaped to Bagdad, and rumor had it that he might go from Iraq...
...acre farm near Pawling in Dutchess County, New York. GOP-Hopeful Dewey thus became, like his 35-mile-away neighbor, Franklin Roosevelt, a titular constituent of GOP-Hopeful Hamilton Fish. Dewey farm facts: price, $30,300 ($3,000 down); a 175-year-old farmhouse, with front porch suitable for campaign purposes; two tenant houses, 70 head of cattle...
...chutney. Mahatma Gandhi, who had lately been Britain's friend, observed bitterly that "the old policy to divide and rule is to continue." The Congress's left wingers, whom Gandhi had purged for the sake of compromise with the Viceroy, vociferously demanded a civil-disobedience campaign...