Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This concern is no political pose with Frank Murphy. Ascetic, perfectionist, he really believes that, instead of becoming a Roman Catholic priest he became a social priest, ordained by his late mother, who taught him to honor Jews and Negroes as highly as other men. In his first mayoral campaign, Detroit called him "Dew and Sunshine" after a speech in which he said that was the kind of new morning Detroit needed. If the so-called Monopoly Investigation imposes upon him the duty of prosecuting any large vested interests, the latter may be sure he will do it with painful...
Ready for Senators' anxious inspection when they returned to their desks this week was a 65-page report, plus 379 pages of documentary evidence, from Chairman Sheppard's Senatorial Campaign Investigating Committee. After long weeks of probing and the expenditure of $54,000 (out of $80,000 appropriated), the Committee came out with little more than the statement that there had been "unjustifiable political activity in connection with the work of the WPA in several States." The Committee did not attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends...
...That Federal relief recipients and dispensers alike be forbidden to contribute any money whatsoever to political campaign funds, and relief executives be forbidden to coerce or solicit such funds, or have others do it for them...
...Secret service men were found searching the offices of the American delegation. . . . The Government . . . violated diplomatic immunity and examined the delegates' mail. Many chauffeurs assigned to the delegates were known to be in the employ of the secret police. . . . [Peru] used at least two agents provocateurs in its campaign to intimidate visiting correspondents. . . . The censor cut the telephonic communication of Leland Stowe on two occasions while he was dictating his dispatch to the [New York] Herald Tribune...
...best aide on whom rests much of the responsibility for the success of this campaign of attrition is China's No. 1 Guerrilla Fighter, modest, crinkly-eyed Chu Teh, Commander of the 8th Route (former Communist) Army. Once hunted by the Generalissimo, with a price of $100,000 on his bullet-shaped head, while Chiang Kai-shek carried on his ten years of futile war against the Communists, Chu Teh now has under him a force of about 150,000 fervent Communist soldiers, another 300,000 embattled farmers, operating behind the Japanese front lines in Shansi and Shantung provinces...