Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Georgia's Democrats went to their polls last week to vote in the next-to-last of Franklin Roosevelt's historic Purge primaries, the Purge candidate for Senator, sober-sided U. S. District Attorney Lawrence Sabyllia Camp of Atlanta, received two last-minute encouragements: the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee declared in Washington that there had been nothing improper about the discharge "for political activities" (against Mr. Camp) of Edgar Dunlap as Atlanta counsel for RFC (TIME, Aug. 29); and the fourth man in the race, Lawyer William G. McRae of Atlanta, withdrew, urging his supporters to vote...
Policeman Thomas Henry Leary of Cambridge, Mass., a political clown well above average in his humor, last week wound up his campaign ("Be Wary of Leary") to avoid election as a delegate to the State Democratic Convention (TIME, Sept. 19), by ringing doorbells at dead of night, begging irate voters not to vote for him. He reported his campaign expenditures: 20? for rotten tomatoes for boys to throw at a "Vote for Leary" sign; 5? for a false mustache to frighten babies. He vowed, if elected (which local observers last week predicted he would be), to campaign for lifting...
...that these were not particularly effective in Germany proper, and that therefore we should be careful and not accept every accusation as actual fact. You know that the Jewish world press is very vigilant, and makes use of every unfounded accusation against the clergy as grounds for a savage campaign against National-Socialist Germany...
...goes to 43,000 of the 58,000 retail druggists in the U. S., sought public support for the most ambitious counterattack to date on what it called "sensational, destructive propaganda" of consumer groups. Conceived by elegant, tweedy, grey-mustached Editor Louis J. F. Moore, the Druggist's campaign is based on a frank appeal to buyers to put their trust in the biggest ads. Keynote: "WHO'S A GUINEA PIG? . . . The real guinea pigs are the people who experiment . . . take chances . . . with products which are NOT backed by a well-known house...
...President Paley is still very much in show business. About five-eighths of Columbia's time is sustaining, must be filled with free shows. CBS prides itself on its dramatic workshop, its spot-news coverage and particularly on the American School of the Air, its new adult education campaign...