Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans have Onward Christian Soldiers for their campaign song, as Mr. Fort says [TIME, July 9], I shall lose my last vestige of hesitancy and vote against Herbert Hoover the Quaker and for Governor Smith the Roman Catholic. Perhaps in the Quaker Church, with its lack of ritual, there is inculcated a disdain for the ritual of others. Brought up in the worship of silence, Mr. Hoover will not mind making a fine old hymn of our fathers into a catch-tune of the hustings. I have been a Republican, if that is what it is to vote for Taft...
...They ought to vote for the party which builds the protective tariff. . . . The campaign will be waged on the protective tariff and its benefits...
...Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. In Chicago, he repeated that he would rather have seen Lowden nominated, but said: "If needed, I am ready to campaign for the ticket. Hoover will be elected...
There is a saying in New York State that Governor Smith was four times elected by the stupidity of his opponents. Loudest of his opponents was Theodore Roosevelt the younger. Last week, notwithstanding Chairman Work's announcement that the Hoover campaign would not indulge in personal attacks, Theodore Roosevelt the younger spoke at Rochester, N.Y., a speech he had learned by heart during previous anti-Smith campaigns. He elaborately explained that no man would question Governor Smith's personal integrity. Then he juxtaposed the Smith name with a sewer scandal, a gambling pool, a milk scandal, and with...
Retired. Sergeant Bertram Follinsby, 67, regimental quartermaster sergeant of the 2nd Corps Area at Governors Island, N. Y.; after 46 years' service in the U. S. Army. His first decoration was pinned upon him after the Indian campaign of 1882-83; his last, the Victory Medal, after the World...