Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that his schooling consisted of one year, said that he was too ignorant for the office. Whereupon, he began to carry a blackboard with him when he made speeches and asked any schoolteacher present to give him an examination. He was the only Republican elected in Elwood in that campaign. The only other public office he held before being appointed Secretary of Labor was county recorder...
...from the site of the Rockefeller-Fosdick Church, another enormous building is going up-the Broadway Temple. Its Methodist pastor-Dr. Christian Reisner-was injured two weeks ago when he coasted on a Flexible Flyer with his son. Last week, from a hospital room, he renewed his campaign for $1,500,000 to pay the contractor...
Baldwin & Mosley. Premier Stanley Baldwin, respected Conservative, saw his son Oliver electioneering at Smethwick near Birmingham in behalf of a Labor candidate. Worse still, this "Laborite" was Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late bulwark of the peerage, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. The "Oswald-Oliver" by-election campaign raised a stir which amounted to a scandal throughout England (TIME, Dec. 27), and then last week, the polling brought a climax. Oswald Mosley was elected a Laborite by 16,077 votes; only 9,495 going to J.M. Pike, his Conservative opponent while the Liberal candidate fail to poll one-eighth...
...defeated Conservative candidate, J. M. Pike, scathingly recalled how Oswald Mosley and his wife Lady Cynthia (Curzon) had poured out Curzon gold in the campaign, adding: "The electorate seemed to have be hypnotized by Mosley's worldly possessions. The main lesson of the election is that the conquest the Labor party by wealthy aristocrats has begun...
...last moments of the campaign the Premier's son, Oliver Baldwin, roundly declared: "England is nearer to revolution than ever before!" To this Premier Baldwin replied through his daughter Betty, who drove the Conservative candidate about Smethwick in her open two-seater, electioneering in his behalf. Said she: "I hope what little I could do counteracted to some extent my brother's words...