Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, June 14). But big Brazil reacted unexpectedly to this news. Commotion broke out in the Rio Grande do Sul bailiwick of swashbuckling Governor José Flores da Cunha, whom President Vargas had to replace with a Federal military interventor. A temporary lifting of the state of war for campaign purposes soon had Brazil's Leftists noisily at the throat of Brazil's green-shirted Fascist Integralistas, whose leader Plinio Salgado wears a Hitler mustache and advocates in misty Portuguese a "corporative State." Last fortnight more serious trouble appeared. The Departmento Nacional do Café, which has destroyed...
...fact that before issuing an appeal for Freshman cooperation, the Fatigue Laboratory should feel it necessary to inaugurate a publicity campaign to insure a favorable reception of their demands, speaks poorly for the undergraduate body...
...today generally considered the political arm of C. I. O., the American Labor Party has managed to keep a foot in both of Labor's camps. Of the 250 unions affiliated with it, about 40% are A. F. of L. Executive Secretary of the A. L. P., whose campaign headquarters were a suite of rooms in the West Side's smallish Claridge Hotel, is pince-nezzed, 39-year-old Alex Rose, vice-president and secretary of the United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers, an A. F. of L. union whose president, Max Zaritzky, is personally friendly...
...Haile Selassie, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, wrote to Patriarch Amba Yoannes XIX of the Coptic Church, in Cairo, petitioning this venerable prelate for a divorce from Princess Holata-Israel, daughter of his father's most powerful chieftain, Ras Seyoum, who capitulated to the Italian invaders during their campaign...
...huge frame and equally mighty enthusiasms, he turns over his new page with all the gusto of a Billy Sunday, joins prison Bible classes, uplifts fellow convicts. The reform of so notable a character attracts wide attention, and soon newspapers, hometown politicians, even a Senator join in a successful campaign for his release. Paroled, Kip Caley strides out into the world again, too happy in his freedom, too exalted by his recent conversion to do more than burble: "I want to be a good man, to fit into things ... get a little closer to people. ..." The rest of the book...