Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself, need have been surprised that Maury was in trouble. Politics is a tough business, and Bexar County is no Sunday school. When Maury Maverick got licked for re-election to Congress, he started to come back by getting himself elected Mayor of San Antonio. In his campaign he promised a general clean-up of the city. When he was elected, he started to make good his promise. Result: obvious to any freshman in political chemistry...
...conspired to spend Maverick money in 50? pieces to pay the $1.50 poll tax for an I. L. G. W. U. member so he could help elect him. (By Texas law, no one can vote without paying a poll tax.) Defense maintained that the money was spent legally for campaign purposes...
...Italy's resignation from the League because of sanctions voted during its Ethiopian campaign became effective early this week. Last week Italian Journalist Virginio Gayda, curiously enough, wrote that Finland had the "right to demand and expect sanctions" against Russia, but scornfully added: "The slave State of Ethiopia did not have that right, for it was guilty of 30 years' aggression against Italy as well as of the most brutal violations of civilized principles." †Switzerland has notified the League that meetings can be held on its territory only if the present war is not discussed...
...Cuba's Strong Man. But it was far from Colonel Batista's retirement from Cuban political life. By retiring he became openly the leading candidate for Cuba's Presidency, and his last speech to the Army, Navy and police became the opening address of his campaign...
Soldiers, sailors, policemen cheered lustily, carried their former Chief off the parade ground on their shoulders. Later, the Colonel went to his campaign headquarters, a place filled with bodyguards, publicity men, secretaries, photographers and Latin spellbinders who are set to ballyhoo for Batista all over the island. Candidate Batista has been endorsed not only by the Nationalist, Liberal, National Democratic and Realist Parties, but also by Cuba's Communists...