Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt that religious intolerance was a large factor in Al Smith's defeat. Since 1928, Pius XI's U. S. priesthood has got in some good licks on anti-Catholic sentiment. So skilfully have they stimulated U. S. reaction against that year's campaign of whispering and Heffling that the atmosphere has intangibly but perceptibly changed. If Jim Farley should run for President next year, the inevitable whispering about the Pope-in-the-White-House would more likely help than hurt him. This is the outward, political aspect of an inner, social change which Catholicism underwent...
Since the proposal to repeal the Teachers' Oath was voted down yesterday in the Legislature by only four votes, it seems likely that the active participation of Harvard in the campaign against this law might have changed defeat into victory. That the university can advance arguments to justify its decision to play a passive role in the struggle for repeal this year is undoubtedly true. For there is some question as to whether this oath does really endanger civil liberties. And, even if the law is a menace to intellectual freedom, it may not be wise for Harvard to stir...
...They're ruining my country," Sawabini exclaimed in a fiery speech before the audience, enthusiasts of the Affiliated Jewish Youth Organization's campaign for Jewish repatriation. He suggested that the Jews stop blaming others and examine themselves, claiming that their unpopularity was their own fault and not the countries' who want to get rid of them...
From a strictly literary point of view the book is consistently fine. Although much of the material is of a rather technical nature, the reader's interest never lags. Particularly effective is the chapter dealing with the heroic campaign of the English in Belgium. Nowhere does the futility of war seem more apparent than in this account of the British loss of 100,000 lives for the sake of retaining a few square miles of disease-infested swampland...
Resuming their League schedule after nearly four weeks of midyear lull, the Varsity puckmen will face off with a dangerous Dartmouth six tonight at the Boston Garden in the opening game of a very tough February ice campaign...