Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Fund Council, controlling board of the Harvard Fund, is composed of thirty elected and appointed alumni. About 65 active Class Agents do the campaign work...
...Kans. and in headphone days Dr. Brinkley began to operate a radio station called KFKB ("Kansas First, Kansas Best"). In 1930 the Kansas Medical Board revoked his medical license for "unprofessional conduct," and the Federal Radio Commission refused to renew his broadcasting license. Undaunted, Brinkley leaped into the Governorship campaign on a "vindication ticket," polling 183,000 votes on a write-in ballot. In 1932 and 1934 he again aspired to the Governorship, but was badly beaten both times by Alf Landon...
...England had talked about guaranteeing dismembered Czecho-Slovakia's frontiers, let it be known that they are not interested in French and British guarantees at all. Rumania's pistol-point signature to an economic alliance with Germany showed what that country thought of the "Stop Hitler" campaign...
Promptings. Despite the fact that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has publicly buried his own appease-the-dictators policy, it was evident last week that such an old habit would die hard. Correspondents even suggested that the Cabinet's Stop Hitler campaign was welded more by the white-heat of public indignation than by any new warmth for a showdown by the Government. Mr. Chamberlain admitted, however, that the present was no moment for him to go flying to see Führer Hitler again as he did last September...
...went one campaign into Chekiang Province, right at Shanghai's unconquered back door. Pop! went another into Kiangsi. Objective of the new drive was Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi. A city of 500,000, Nanchang is a key point on the Chekiang-Hunan railway, China's last line of supply from the east coast. In two days, according to Japanese reports, 1,100 Chinese lay dead and 6,500 were captured. In seven days the offensive banged its way into Nanchang...