Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most of the farmers' kids were already asleep when Willard C. ("Parson") Teague, chief editorial writer of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, leaned toward the microphone and drawled out the name of the landowner-sweepstakes winner for 1938 in the "C. A.'s" Plant-to-Prosper campaign. Looking completely confused and happy, grey-haired Farmer H. L. Majure of Poplar Grove. Ark. made his way to the platform and was handed a check...
...immediate gains. Its late, revered Publisher Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, who died in 1926, never tired of preaching that the South would progress only when it taught its farmers to diversify their crops, raise most of their own food. That is the key-note of the Plant-to-Prosper campaign, started in 1933 by the Commercial Appeal now promoted also by the Atlanta Constitution, Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, Chattanooga News. Winner Majure and his family of eight raised $225 worth of their own food this year, have $220 worth on hand, not including some hogs killed this month. They...
Onto the stage of Chicago's Medinah Temple, bag-jowled, loud-mouthed William Hale Thompson, thrice Mayor of Chicago and ready to try once more at 69, last week threw his ten-gallon campaign sombrero while friends yowled...
Another worry to the Quakers is that center Swede Gustafson has not yet rounded into shape after the stiff football campaign. Coach Jourdet's five misses him, because it has no other sixfoot starters...
...helped America click chiefly by being a clearinghouse of industrial information, a super trade-association. But under Roosevelt N. A. M. has become more and more the Voice of Industry, first pro-New Deal, then so bitterly anti that N. A. M. sound-offs sounded like Republican campaign speeches. Two years ago under the guidance of Chairman Colby Chester of General Foods Corp., N. A. M. developed a new attitude, something which might be termed "reasonable liberalism," approving certain New Deal reforms, asking for modest changes, waving the olive branch rather than the hatchet. Last week the Voice of Industry...