Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican statesmen in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts. Unlike the Wyoming statesmen, however, the others were not dignifying their admiration for President Coolidge by formal petitions to him. For example, in Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was frankly borrowing the Coolidge virtues as window-dressing for a campaign in behalf of discredited Governor Len Small...
...Hoover. Candidate Hoover last week made his first campaign speech. It was so brief, so quiet that only one newspaper (the New York World) heard about it until the next day. It was in Washington, at a banquet which the 80-odd U. S. Representatives invited were asked to keep secret. It took the form of a bow, some thanks, an exhortation to keep fighting and a promise to vindicate the fighters' choice. Representative Dyer of Missouri enlivened the evening with a veritable placing-in-nomination speech, but of greater significance was a statement by Campbell Bascom Slemp, astute...
...Kentucky Legislature, Candidate Reed last week set forth for fresh adventures in North Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin. After those States, he said, he would visit Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, New York. He said he was sure people were glad he had revived a method of campaigning that was "good enough for Abraham Lincoln." A Reed campaign fund was begun by his Missouri friends. The slogan: "A Dollar...
Houston Thompson, former secretary of the Federal Trade Commission will be the central figure in the Democratic Club meeting to be held in the Living Room of the Union Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. Thompson will speak on "Monopoly and Its Relation to the Present Campaign...
...meeting will be the second of a series to be held to determine "What Should Progressives Advocate in both Platforms in the Coming Campaign?" The question is asked, and will be answered by the Democratic Club, which is planning to draw up a platform for use in the coming mock convention to be held the first week...