Word: paigned
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...owners did not prosper so well. A few months ago Donovan was discussing Chicago's blighted laundry business with shrewd, hulking President James Shaw of the Laundry Owners Association. Donovan suggested an advertising cam paign, said his union was ready to put up $10,000, that he thought the laundry truck drivers' union would do the same. Laundryman Shaw was sold, but it took him three months to get the other owners to agree. Finally they put up $32,000. Last week the campaign, scheduled for mid-September in local newspapers, was in the hands of an advertising...
Last week was historic in U. S. politics. It was the week when the candidates for the U. S. Presidency defined different, but equally new, relationships with their parties. Franklin Roosevelt irritably relegated the Democratic Party organization to the bottommost column of his cam paign calculations (see col. 1). Wendell Willkie in Colorado Springs cordially received G. O. P. politicos, listened politely, sent them away knowing that to him as well the Republican Party's formal, professional organism would be incidental in the 1940 campaign...
...Moving Picture Machine Operators) had convened. Among its bigwigs are, or were: Nick Dean (known to Chicago police as Nick Circella), Willie Bioff. Convicted once of assault with intent to murder, Nick has been arrested for robbery, stealing automobiles. After Columnist Westbrook Pegler's recent acrimonious cam paign, Willie Bioff was cast into jail to serve out an old sentence for pandering...