Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exoneration from a New York State Senator who had been with him constantly at the Syracuse fair. He got a denial of the letter from its alleged writer and an evasion from its alleged recipient. Then he issued a document entitled: "Nailing a Lie in the Whispering Campaign...
...effect on Smith sympathizers was one of satisfaction. But nailing a lie in a whispering campaign is much like nailing an ant on a rotten plank. The hammer blows shake out a lot of other ants and start them swarming furiously. A lot of the Brown Derby's best friends wished that the unhappy Warrior would leave lienailing to his assistants and confine himself to constructive campaigning...
...Post Office Department (Harry S. New of Indiana, Postmaster General) made a gesture in answer to the charge that, by laxity, it was aiding the Whispering Campaign. At Baltimore, Postmaster Benjamin F. Woelper seized 100 anti-Smith postcards which Postmaster General New later pronounced the work of "a depraved and degenerate mind...
...mentioned for comparison. Nor was the ability of the young lawyers in question evaluated. The embarrassing feature for the Smiths was that of the several judges who made the assignments. two (the Hons. Joseph M. Proskauer and Bernard L. Shientag) were to accompany the Warrior on his campaign and a third, the Hon. Thomas C. T. Grain, was getting himself considered last week (among others) as a candidate to succeed the Warrior as Governor. All this led to a further question of propriety: should judges enter so actively into politics...
...board were four tons of campaign literature, a reference library. 43 newspapermen, eight photographers and a group of the Nominee's best friends and advisers. He was bound, via Chicago, for Omaha to speak out on farm relief. He was going into nine states, carefully selected on the basis of their presidential vote in 1924. It was a dash and a drive to capture Kansas and Colorado which Calvin Coolidge carried by large majorities; Minnesota and Wyoming, which Calvin Coolidge carried by small majorities; Montana, North Dakota and Nebraska, which Calvin Coolidge carried with fewer votes than Democrat Davis...