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Word: campaign (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tell your readers that HOOVER hasn't a CHINAMAN'S chance of carrying anything south of the POTOMAC. You know it has "gotten out" that his campaign Manager is named "WORK" and if you tried to run a farm down here you would soon learn that work is anathema to almost the entire population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...Know." A Cuban news-gatherer asked Nominee Smith what his stand was on the Platt Amendment.* The Nominee replied: "I don't even know what the Platt Amendment is. ... In the course of the campaign all those matters will be taken care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Brown Derby | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...meeting of the National Democratic Committee was not particularly significant. Jesse Holman Jones, retiring Director of Finance and "angel" of the Democracy the past four years, reported that the $84,000 Houston convention was all paid for and that a balance of some $200,000 remained for campaign expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Raskob et Al. | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...business life today we succeed ... by having better goods to sell than our competitors. There is every reason why the Democratic party should follow this constructive business policy in this campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Raskob et Al. | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...supercilious whites. A slave born of slave parents, Pierre-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture, First of the Blacks, established in 1801 an independent constitution. He was well under way with a promising period of reconstruction when Napoleon took time to consider his refractory colonies. A swift intelligent military campaign subdued Toussaint's able generals. Toussaint himself was taken unscrupulously by ruse, and imprisoned in France-to be mourned in lines by Wordsworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Honest History | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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