Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter, when the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs were in the lath-&-scaffold stage, New Yorkers and San Franciscans were already discussing tall plans for the music Fairgoers were to hear. Tallest planning was in Manhattan, where pudgy, music-loving Mayor LaGuardia had inaugurated a campaign to raise $1,200,000 to finance a World's Fair music festival. With this money, portly Olin Downes, New York Times music critic and Fair music director, proposed to buy Manhattan a festival she would never forget. Two months later news leaked out that the campaign had flopped...
Last week five of the six defendants stood convicted of conspiring to intimidate Editor Ewald into silencing his anti-lottery campaign. Sam B. Powe, Mobile's lottery king and ringleader of the plot, was sentenced to seven years in prison, his fellow conspirators to terms ranging from 18 months to five years. Their convictions will be appealed. Solicitor Chamberlain was acquitted, but resigned two days later. What had happened to honest, courageous, but perverted Editor Ewald, no one in Mobile knew...
...details were as sordid as the case was significant. Ten years ago strapping, handsome Henry Philip Ewald went to Mobile to become executive editor of a new afternoon paper, the Press. A tireless crusader, Editor Ewald launched campaign after campaign against gambling, political corruption, vice. He not only wrote editorials, but poked & pried into the recesses of Mobile's underworld...
Next day Publisher Chandler started a private investigation, learned to his sorrow that his crusading editor's personal record was bad. Henry Ewald resigned and left Mobile. But Publisher Chandler kept up his campaign. Government investigators went to Mobile, laid their evidence before U. S. District Attorney Francis Harrison Inge. District Attorney Inge got indictments against the four men who had trapped and photographed Editor Ewald, and the woman who had invited him to her room. Also indicted was a young assistant circuit solicitor (State's attorney), Bart B. Chamberlain Jr.. who had boasted publicly that...
...Church militant. Gossip-column rumors that he had been converted to Catholicism were, he admitted privately, true. Thus his conversion became the most spectacular since the late Colonel Horace A. Mann's in 1933 (Colonel Mann was credited with handing out anti-Catholic propaganda during the Smith-Hoover campaign...