Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Puritans in Massachusetts, but it has remained for the twentieth century and the state of New Jersey to realize their full possibilities. The town of Westwood in that state has long been oppressed by a heartless law forbidding movies on Sundays. Last Sunday came the climax of a campaign for their emancipation, when Allan Meyer, who had combined the positions of Justice of the Peace and manager of the moving picture theater, took up the standard of Sunday movies and opened his theater. Haled to court and made to pay a fine, he launched a counter-at-tack...
...Passed a resolution instructing the Senate's campaign funds investigating committee to review the handling of Cuban sugar by the U. S. Food Administrator (now Candidate Hoover) during...
...brainy virtuoso, impatient of masters, who studied to be a civil engineer, switched to and succeeded in the law, switched to and succeeded in public utilities, switched to and dazzled the oldsters in politics (he managed McKinley's Illinois campaign for Mark Hanna), switched to banking and excelled at that (U. S. Comptroller of Currency, 1897-1902; founder and head of the Central Union Trust Co.; urged by Andrew Mellon in 1920 for Secretary of the Treasury). He did the War purchasing for his boyhood friend, General Pershing; then straightened out the Federal Budget system; then devised the plan...
...Passed the Senate's resolution for a survey of the Boulder Dam project before Congress convenes again next December. The resolution went to the President. C. Passed a resolution to empower a committee of five House members to investigate campaign funds. C Adjourned sine...
Then Joel 0. Cheek did a very bold thing for a merchant. He started a national advertising campaign before he could supply the goods he advertised. But he created an insistent demand, and by the time his salesmen got to northern, midwestern, southwestern, northwestern and Pacific Coast jobbers they met very little sales-resistance...