Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators, four other States last week held primaries which instructed both Franklin Roosevelt and his enemies that in politics there are still a few issues besides the New Deal. Internationalist, Graft, Third Termer, Million Dollar Candidate, many another symbol or shibboleth antedating March 4, 1933, rang through the hot campaign...
...Motion Picture Democratic Committee (Dashiell Hammett, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Fredric March, Melvyn Douglas, Donald Ogden Stewart et al.) telegraphed to Republican Governor Frank Merriam: "FOUR YEARS AGO WE . . . HAD TO CONTRIBUTE A DAY'S PAY TO YOUR CAMPAIGN FUND TO SAVE CALIFORNIA
...half, its roof supported by three interior pillars and a colonnade. The Shed's acoustics are so excellent that an orchestral pianissimo can be heard by an overflow audience outside the colonnade. Last week, during the first of this season's six concerts, Miss Smith launched a campaign for $58,000 to curtain the sides of the Shed with iron (for storms), to complete the stage, etc. Future Tanglewood projects : opera, a music school...
...Agriculture Henry A. Wallace is "I was astonished." Last week, Secretary Wallace "was astonished at the number of speculative accounts controlled by so-called commodity counselors or 'tipsters.' " His astonishment was conveyed in a letter to a unique Washington meeting that marked the opening of a campaign to squelch such tipsters. Present were officers from most of the important...
Richard Whitney's Old Guard looked on him as an amiable tool for their campaign...