Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Judah never before held public office higher than a seat in the Illinois assembly. He has never felt that his Republican sentiments required him to admire Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who labeled Mr. Judah a "silk sock" when the latter managed an anti-Thompson primary campaign. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois has been the Judah patron. He introduced the bemedaled* lawyer-soldier to Washington last year and President Coolidge was impressed. Colonel Judah, onetime Assistant Chief of Staff of the Rainbow Division, is a director of the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and an alumnus-trustee...
...publicity given Governor Smith's Statement on the right of the people to organize against Prohibition indicates that this will probably be the only issue of great popular interest in the coming presidential campaign. Senator Borah, in demanding that the subject be brought into the open and voted upon, emphasizes the reluctance of the two major parties to touch the question, and shows confidence in the general belief that the country, however wet in sentiment, will unfailingly give a dry vote. What the opposition needs is a slogan that might convince citizens that the desire for disreputable indulgence...
...Charles Sprague Sargent Memorial Fund of $1,000,000 for the Arnold Arboretum, contingent upon the raising in New York and other cities of approximately $500,000, the amount needed to complete the fund, it was announced yesterday by Henry James '99 chairman of the New York campaign committee. The fact that the plan of riding clubs situated near the Arboretum to lay out a short bridle path through it has been approved, was made known by Oakes Ames '98, Professor of Botany and Supervisor of the Arnold Arboretum...
...politics. It is far too soon to say whether Senator Borah or any one else can transform the topic about which U. S. citizens think and feel the most, from the great Hush-Hush of the politicians in both parties to the one real issue of the campaign...
...parliament when she won (by a majority of about 6,000 votes over her Liberal and Labor opponents), the seat for Southend-on-Sea, vacated by her husband's elevation to the Peerage on the death of his father. Said she, summing up what was called a "piquant campaign:" "The Southend people's verdict proves, further, their confidence that a wife may represent them as faithfully as a husband...