Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very well. It generally further resembles the House of Lords in being chosen from the upper strata of society, and for service of one sort or another to the commonwealth. For the peer this service may consist in amassing enough money to buy a Derby winner and supply campaign funds; the student council member may have run the Barwell ends ragged, or may have shut out Yates...
...Liberal club, in its recent campaign has been the cause of more than one smile, but it has at least treated its subject with serious dignity. It is a violation of the finer feelings of human nature to be forced to associate a letter of the type written by Mr. Hollister with the Harvard men that have died for the true dignity of their country...
When blind Senator Thomas D. Schall goes home to Minnesota he will feel and hear a disturbance in the political air. Malignant Minnesotans, particularly friends of Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson, whom Mr. Schall defeated in 1924, are saying that bootleggers contributed to Mr. Schall's campaign fund. Such charges being "a dirty mess on the doorstep of the state," the State Senate last week voted, 54 to 1, to conduct an investigation. It matters not that the U. S. Senate looked into Mr. Schall's election last spring (TiME, June 28) and found it pure enough to allow...
...What Christian Statesmen are in the pay of Jewish financiers?" Recently Herr Hugo Graefe, potent German landholder, propounded this question in a campaign speech and answered it himself: "My friends, I will tell you one Christian the Jews have bought! Our Foreign Minister [Dr. Gustav Stresemann] has a villa and a castle given him as bribes by Jewish bankers to reveal State secrets and betray the Fatherland...
Soon M. Kerensky became War Minister, and in May he began an extraordinary oratorical campaign which so far restored the morale of the army that it launched a last desperate offensive against Germany in June. When this failed and the army collapsed the power of the Mensheviki became shadowy; but Minister Kerensky as the outstanding Menshevik leader assumed the Premiership which he held for four months...