Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic Club in securing Senator Walsh is inaugurating a policy of obtaining prominent Democrats and Progressives for a series of forum discussions on the issues of the approaching campaign. Among the men who have been approached by the club are W. G. McAdoo, Newton D. Baker, and Professor W. Y. Elliott. There is also a possibility the Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York may be secured...
...English Election Campaign," Professor Munro, New Lecture Hall...
...Campaign. A committee collecting money for Washington Cathedral last week received $250,000 and a $50,000 annuity. These were first scores in a new campaign announced the week before. Chairman of the committee is General John J. Pershing; executive chairman is George Wharton Pepper, onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania; treasurer is Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. (Some thought that Secretary Mellon gave last week's gifts; they were anonymous). Associated with these are Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington, whose seat is in the cathedral, other clergymen and potent laymen...
...cathedral and its associated institutions need $30,000,000. Already $6,000,000 have been given or pledged. The present campaign is for $6,800,000 to complete and endow new portions of the cathedral building itself...
Detroit went to its primary polls to nominate two men to run for mayor. No parties took part. No issues were raised. And the man Detroit chose by a margin of 30,000 votes as leading nominee had made no campaign, posted no posters, mailed no cards, spoken no speeches. When this leading nominee heard the returns he said: "The vote of the people is a tribute for which I am deeply grateful. ... I believe that the people of Detroit know there is not an intolerant bone in my body...