Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best of what you have, is absolutely necessary to the successful military "scientist." The Allies almost lost the World War because Britain's Lord Kitchener had grown stodgy, because France's Foch kept mistaking a trench "war of position" fof an open "war of maneuver," because the campaign to take the Dardanelles got under way too slowly. Britain's Sir Douglas Haig threw away a chance for a decisive breakthrough when he allowed the new invention of the tank to appear on the western front prematurely, without adequate support, in numbers far too small to be effective...
...Merriam, who runs a private school in Los Angeles. (According to testimony, Secretary Megladdery thought it "would not look good," paid instead with a rubber check, and Miss Merriam eventually ponied up for herself.) Mark Megladdery already had admitted to taking $500 from Barman Bent, insisted it was a campaign contribution...
...married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which the Brothers Shubert produced on Broadway. Democratic National Committeewoman Clara Driscoll Sevier gave liberally to the 1932 Roosevelt-Garner campaign fund. Husband Hal Sevier became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Chile. They were divorced last year and Clara Driscoll Sevier changed her name to Mrs. Clara Driscoll...
...have saved him had not Benito Mussolini unwittingly come to his aid. By staging anti-French demonstrations demanding Tunisia, Corsica arid a few other choice bits of French territory, Il Duce gave the Premier his big chance to regain his fast-dwindling popularity. The Premier answered the Italian campaign with a triumphal tour of Corsica and North Africa. Returning, he declared categorically that France would not cede one inch of her territory. The French people slapped their chests with satisfaction...
Director Victor Schertzinger has long held that the cinema is a better medium for opera than the stage. Composer of the music for The Love Parade (1929), Schertzinger started his campaign to bring opera to the screen when he had Grace Moore trill in One Night of Love, thus setting the fashion for innumerable musical films. Since all works of Gilbert & Sullivan (except The Pirates of Penzance) are in the public domain in the U. S., he could easily have produced The Mikado in Hollywood without paying royalties to the D'Oyly Carte Company, which owns the English rights...