Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enter his name in their primary. Said he: "I was importuned some time ago to allow my name to be used and I simply said I would not veto it." News followed that Walsh movements were afoot also in Wisconsin and South Dakota. Said Mr. Walsh: "I have no campaign plans and no thought of quitting my duties here [in Washington] to promote my candidacy, if such it may be called. If my services to the party have been such as to entitle me to consideration . . . I dare say the rank and file are not ignorant of the fact...
Curtis does not make policies; he unveils them. It is his business to sound out the opposition, plan a campaign, arrange a compromise if one is necessary, and muster the votes when the skies are stormy. As long ago as 1899 one can find him praised by the Topeka Mail and Breeze as a past master at the art of settling a dispute without an open quarrel. In that capacity he has been of inestimable service to successive Administrations. For he has what William Allen White calls "a blessed gift as a hand-shaker" and "the indefinable thing called charm...
...Registrar was forceful; as candidate for Governor he will again be able to furnish pyrotechnic displays. But he cannot be too careful. Mr. Goodwin as the New England agent for the Elcar is giving the other side too much of a chance to steal his thunder; the primary campaign in itself promises plenty of sound and fury; and if it becomes a business struggle, Governor Fuller has a tremendous lead for even his pugnacious rival to overcome...
...members of the national and executive committees of Washington Cathedral.* At the dinner, it was announced that $800,000 had been given for work on the choir and the crossing of the new edifice. General Pershing, as chairman of the national committee, assumed formal leadership of the campaign to raise $6,800,000 immediately and $30,000,000 ultimately with which to make the cathedral a "U. S. Westminster Abbey." He spoke further...
...pleasant but it is not blessed by efficiency. No more efficient is indiscriminate philanthropy conducted on a larger scale. The purpose of the Community Chest is to lessen the indiscrimination and waste of large-scale philanthropy by simple and effective cooperation. Thus, instead of several separate and slipshod campaigns for charitable financing, a city in which a Community Chest functions has one concerted campaign, lessening advertising expenses, increasing the net result. A board of directors, made up of the officials of the various welfare organizations, sees to it that budgets are properly distributed...