Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Henry Justin Allen of Kansas, who took a prominent part in the Kansas Hoover campaign, outspoken, never at a loss for words...
...side stood the Insull-controlled New England Public Service Co., parent company of Central Maine Power Co., and four Maine textile mills. It openly and expensively campaigned for power export. Leader of its fight was Walter S. Wyman, President of the Central Maine. He reported that the funds expended in the campaign were the result of Insull profits in Texas, were not profits taken from Maine consumers. On the same side were former Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (1921-25) and numerous newspapers including the papers published by Guy Patterson Gannett.* Together they bombarded Maine with advice to permit power export...
...good Christian man, a good father," and the judge ordered Mr. Kvale removed from the Republican ticket. He ran as an independent and lost to Volstead by only 1,200 votes in the Harding landslide. Two years later Kvale as a Farmer-Laborite opposed Volstead again. In that campaign Mr. Volstead was known as a disinterested Dry, Mr. Kvale as a red-hot Dry. Kvale won, by 14,000 votes. Volstead became legal adviser of the Northwest Prohibition District...
...unattractive sort of dowry. . . ." Dean Gildersleeve thus touched upon one phase of the scholarship and tuition loan problem which, present at all colleges, is being attacked from a new angle by a big new institution called the Lincoln Scholarship Fund. This Fund started functioning last week in Manhattan. Its campaign: to raise $1,120,000 to lend as tuition fees to "anyone, regardless of age, race, color or creed who can furnish proof of need and sincerity of purpose." Its founder: Jacob J. Vandever, onetime (1922) President of the New York Rotary Club, and active philanthropist who likes to dress...
...Army during the War. After his discharge he again became an adventurer. At various times he: ran a New York matrimonial bureau; collected "thousands of dollars" on a Ford car which he repeatedly raffled off but never delivered; was arrested after "illegal actions" during a political campaign; jumped bail and went to Georgia where the store robbery occurred...