Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Chicago saw to a close what many named the filthiest, most nauseating political campaign in the city's history. Nearly 1,000,000 voters swarmed about the polls. Police squads in cars, armed with rifles and machine guns patrolled the streets; state militia stood ready to answer riot calls. It seemed probable that onetime Mayor William Hale Thompson, Republican, would again be elected Mayor; but followers of William E. Dever, Democrat, present mayor, were full of hope. Dr. John Dill Robertson, Independent, also...
...most trusted general. Indeed only ten months ago, Wang was Chairman* of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Government. But he was ousted by the Nationalist radicals and retired to France just before the Nationalist army set out from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6 et seq.) on its successful campaign to capture all South China. How did Wang return from France so dramatically last week...
Obviously, Chiang's cue was to secure the return of Wang whose views are consonant with his own; and then to launch a political campaign to consolidate the Nationalists around Chiang and Wang, both of whom enjoy considerable prestige as men close to the late Dr. Sun in his last years...
...James Rowland Angell of Yale University: "The elaborateness of modern college endowment activities was suggested by news last week that one afternoon this month, before I address a 'master dinner' of Yale alumni in Manhattan at the official opening of Yale's latest $20,000,000 campaign, I am to address by radio all Yale alumni in the U. S. and also Europe. A 32.79-metre wave, it is expected, will make my plea for money heard by Yale men, idle and diligent alike, in London, Paris, Berlin, Venice, Cairo...
With a practice game this afternoon against a team composed of seniors and graduates, the soccer eleven will embarkon a serious spring training campaign. Most of last year's team and the nucleus of the Freshman eleven are numbered in the squad, which has been working out daily on Soldiers Field under the tutelage of the new mentor, John Kershaw, of Lancaster, England. Kershaw has been drilling his squad principally on "heading" the ball, which he considers the most important department of the game...