Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports announced an eight game Varsity football schedule for the 1941 campaign which includes contests with all Ivy League teams except Columbia, and additional bouts with the Army and Navy...
...General Alberto Pariani, Chief of Staff of the Army and Under Secretary for War. He helped make the Versailles Treaty, was one of the planners of the Ethiopian campaign, introduced the goose step and forebade swearing in the Army, believes in lightning warfare. Pro-Axis, at least outwardly, he conferred with Germany's Chief of the High Command Wilhelm Keitel just before Italy took Albania...
...military plum fell to one of the grimmest, crudest men in Italy, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. His family motto is: "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes." He ruthlessly subdued Libya in 1921-29, led the murderous southern campaign in Ethiopia. Nicked by a would-be assassin's hand grenade in Addis Ababa in 1937, he had 1,600 natives slaughtered. When Mussolini chided him, he is said to have answered: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." Shortly afterwards he returned to Italy because of "ill health...
...enterprising Roosevelts, Elliott, in radio, naturally has the oddest messmates. Oddest of these for a Roosevelt to be hobnobbing with is a Chicago adman named Hill Blackett, mainly famous for having guided Alf Landon's campaign in 1936. The Blackett advertising agency, Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc., does the biggest business in radio: mostly sobby, low-cost network serials plugging household helps, headache remedies, beauty aids, etc. to U. S. housewives...
...lance Educator Benjamin C. Gruenberg and J. L. Kaukonen of the Public Health Service. A similar manual, written by Dr. Gruenberg in 1922, got nowhere, but Surgeon General Thomas Parran, encouraged by his recent success in killing another taboo-discussion of venereal disease-had high hopes for this new campaign. Said he: "Many people see sex dimly through a mist-dangerous, but mysteriously attractive. . . . Modern psychology and medicine . . . have shown over and over again the need for replacing taboos and ignorance by frank discussion and knowledge so that young people can attain healthy adulthood...