Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week marked their ballots for one Boston Curtis, Republican candidate for precinct committeeman. Boston Curtis was elected. Milton's Mayor Kenneth Simmons, a Democrat, chortled hugely. He, who had sponsored Candidate Curtis and filed his papers, had proved his point that voters "have no idea whom they support." Boston Curtis is a large brown mule...
Purpose : a last-minute attempt to win widespread Polish support at the polls for the ostensibly Democratic Republic whose Strong Man is Field Marshal Smigly-Rydz...
...many admen would also add the U. S. Government and the nation's schools to their list of potential debunkers.- Last week the American Druggist, Hearst-owned monthly that 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...
...next biennial convention, to be held in Baltimore next May. Inveterate resolvers, even when meeting in smaller groups, the Federationists, led by their doe-eyed national president, Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober last week resolved: 1) to encourage the singing of opera in the English language (see above), 2) to support the development of small local opera companies throughout the U. S., 3) to pay more attention to music in the rural schools, 4) to help the growth of orchestral music 5) to encourage mass singing, 6) to further the observance of American Music Year (1938). "At a time when...
Citing few specific facts to support their conclusions, Investigators Henry & Kerwin reported: "The politics with which the schools are beset at the present time are injected . . . just as frequently by school boards as by representatives of the legislative or executive branches of political government. In addition there are instances of tampering with the schools which involves collusion between the school board and a political machine. In fact, there is ground for the contention that an independent school board merely provides two possible sources of political interference instead...