Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...construed by the Supreme Court, be not the law, then there is no law. . . . "I agree with Dr. Butler that this is not a case which can be cured by the application of political soothing syrup, and certainly the Republican Party would not take a position in the next campaign upon the question of near-modification of the Volstead act. . . . "Then we come to the other proposal, which was hinted at. But Dr. Butler did not seem to touch it, and that is the repeal of the 18th Amendment and the substitution therefor of Government control, Government sale and distribution...
...turned back upon the, Southern Nationalists who had been pursuing them, dealt two heavy blows, and recaptured "Yangchow. Though the number of troops involved was not great, this was the first action in which the Nationalists have suffered a definite defeat since they left Canton on their great campaign which has resulted in the capture of all China South of the Yangtze...
There followed an alleged campaign to purge Chile of Reds, during which it was observed that those arrested, jailed or deported were in very few instances tinged with Communism but were in every instance foes of Premier Ibanez. The crux came when the President's own brother was arrested as a Red, although he, Senor Javier Figueroa was actually Chief Justice of the Chilean Supreme Court, and legally immune from arrest...
...Samuel Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (TIME, Feb. 28). Commented the Christian Century: "When Dr. Cadman steps forth to champion the return of this child to New York, and lends the weight of his endorsement to her proposed union campaign there - what is there to be said that is adequate?" The Christian Century continued: "The worst sufferer of all, however, is not the child nor the public, but the church. A performance of this kind is fair notice to all ... of the desperate plight in which the leaders of the church feel...
...Manhattan, last week, a divorce suit began which might never have received publicity had not two of the principals, mustachioed Col. Edward C. Carrington (onetime campaign manager for Theodore Roosevelt) and his brother, Campbell Carrington, battled violently with canes on Park Ave. Colonel Carrington accused his wife and brother of adultery...