Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps he will be the next mayor of Boston," rumbled Boston's convivial Mayor James Michael Curley at a wedding party for a boyish, promising lieutenant named Maurice J. Tobin in 1932. Last week as James Michael Curley, fresh from the Governor ship of Massachusetts and an unsuccessful campaign for the U. S. Senate, tried to capture his Boston bailiwick for the fourth time, his prediction came bitterly true...
...Practically all had either syphilis or gonorrhea. The plant was an obsolete brick building, with badly ventilated rooms and few sanitary facilities. On the theory that the deplorable conditions at the N.T.S.G. existed partly because no one knew about them, Carrie Smith set out to make them known. Her campaign reached its peak when she got Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt interested in her problems. Mrs. Roosevelt was so appalled that, after describing the school's condition in her column, she mercifully invited all the girls in the School to the White House, gave them tea on the lawn...
Results of Mrs. Smith's publicity campaign were ironic. She found that before she took charge of the school, riots had been a routine affair. During her regime they became less frequent but because of the White House party and because Congress had appropriated $100,000 for improvements, anything that happened in the National Training School for Girls was newsworthy. Last summer, a controversy between white and colored inmates as to whether Joe Louis was a better boxer than Jimmy Braddock started a free-for-all fight. Month ago, a fire alarm set off to increase the excitement...
...Chicago this week the Republican National Committee will ponder and decide between the Hooverian and Landonian plans of campaign. Last week a United Press poll of committee members showed 32 in favor of the Hoover plan, 18 noncommittal, one opposed...
...Georgia, the republic from which the Dictator comes, the Orthodox clergy promptly pressed their advantage under the new Constitution by opening a public campaign demanding that divine service be resumed in all church structures in Georgia which have not yet actually been destroyed. The Orthodox bishops, priests and delegates of Orthodox believers from the vicinity of Tver, Yaroslavl and Ivanovo-Voznesensk dared and succeeded in holding without molestation from the Secret Police an assembly to decide the electoral policies of the Church. It became a question whether religious groups should attempt to nominate for election to the Supreme Soviet priests...