Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Election expenses. No governor became excited over the corrupt practices act (limiting campaign expenses), but a onetime governor, Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, an honorary member of the Conference, flayed Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania and included in his caustic words Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. The Conference listened, decided that candidates for office who had knowingly violated the corrupt practices act should not be allowed to hold their seats, thus begging the question and naming no names...
...publication of this check left Governor Jackson in an embarrassing position, inasmuch as he had (in 1926) denied that Mr. Stephenson had given him $2,500 or any other amount for his gubernatorial campaign. When the Stephenson expose began, Governor Jackson was in Kansas, where he occupied a pulpit and gave a sermon on the text: What is a, man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? After the sermon the choir sang a hymn: "It must be told." Then back to Indianapolis went the Governor and, at first refusing to comment...
...London last week, the members of the British Empire cancer campaign, which is functioning somewhat in the manner of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, heard described the slow motion photography of living cancer cells. A motion picture camera is focused on a cancer sore and operated slowly for varying periods up to two days. The long negative is developed and a positive film made. When the reel is projected on a screen the cancer cells, magnified, are seen spreading, moving, creeping, quite like budding flowers seen in slow motion pictures. The process is expected to reveal...
...simple, though at present largely hypothetical. Let there be established testing bureaus, like the National Bureau of Standards. Let these bureaus analyze manufacturers' products, publish their analyses, rate each product in accordance with its desserts. Then the consumer will be buying not a slogan, not an advertising campaign, not a package, not a name. He will be buying a product. He may "get his money's worth...
...publication I do not know." The effect of this was discounted by the interpretation furnished the New York World by its Washington correspondent, Charles Michelson: "Henry Ford's recantation of his anti-Semitism ... is taken by the politicians to be his first step towards entering the 1928 campaign for the Presidency. The circumstance that he made the Hearst newspapers his vehicle for the dissemination of his change of heart is interpreted as indicating that William Randolph Hearst is about to push the candidacy of the flivver king. . . . Obviously it would have been embarrassing for the publisher of a chain...