Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday 13,000 members of the University, including officers, teachers, students, and employees received pledges for the Community Fund Campaign. Officials of the drive served notice that there would be no administrative pressure in the canvassing...
...members of the University have given generously in the past to the support of the various relief agencies of Cambridge and Boston, but previously they have done so under some regional classification other than that implied by membership in the University. For this reason the organization of the present campaign will make possible a more truly representative showing for Harvard, especially if the larger givers will divert their contributions to this channel...
...consumption is so large. With the Japanese now in control of the tea provinces, Chinese tea exports have been jumped, prices cut sharply under that of Empire tea. And Empire prices may soon be forced up if India's Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose succeeds in his current campaign to jack up tea laborers' wages, now 15 shillings a month for men, ten for women, three for children...
...similar propaganda campaign was begun after U. S. imports dropped to 76,400,000 Ibs. in 1934 from 96,600,000 Ibs. in 1933. With the governments of the major tea-growing nations (except China and Japan) putting up $1,000,000 annually for promotional activities handled by a Tea Bureau, U. S. imports were boosted back to 95,000,000 Ibs. in 1937-about four-tenths of a cup a day per person...
...White Rose of Memphis, which had sold 160,000 copies before it went out of print 30 years ago, made the grand tour of Europe, always went armed. He also quarreled with peace-loving Partner Thurmond, ran against him for the legislature. On election day 1889, after a savage campaign, Colonel Falkner walked out unarmed after hearing he had won, met Colonel Thurmond, who shot him down on the main street of the town they both helped to build...