Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shoals bill would have dried up the sources of revenue that we must have in the great campaign just ahead...
...rate, after the brilliant example of President Coolidge, whose skill in a fishing way has kept the exploits of the U. S. Marines in Nicagagna almost entirely off the front pages, it is inconceivable that the campaign managers will let Mr. Hoover's exploits with the rod and reel remain hidden under a bushel...
Suppose the Democratic nominee should turn out to be a really first rate fisherman. At least, Americans would be treated to a presidential campaign based on fundamental issues Daily, the Republican press would chronicle the piscatorial teats of Messrs. Hoover and Curtis, while the Democratic newspapers would retaliate with even more meticulous accounts of the day's catch of their protegees Pike for pickeral, trout for salmon, the battle would be fought bitterly every inch...
...came about: While a million radios were still being tuned in to catch the proceedings: while campaign managers were still figuring with frantic pencils the delegates claimed and the delegates secured: even before the chairman stood upon the platform and delivered the quadrennial inveighment against smoking, the issue was settled. Cold water, floods of it poured over the fireworks, and the melancholy farmers could not even rouse a dull "siss!" for all their trying. The anti-Hoover scandal sheets were futile and with no goal before them, they can only fill wastebaskets or memory books...
...that some bright angel will be kind enough to lay a guiding hand on the shoulders of the Democrats, and lead them from the maze into the light of public demand. If so, there will occur the amazing spectacle of the two parties opposing in one and the same campaign their two outstanding men, and not dodging with compromise candidates that do not satisfy the parties, the delegates, or the nation. An amazing spectacle, certainly, and one that promises somewhat more government by the people than that often-mouthed phrase usually means...