Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Sept. 13, [p. 6] you refer to the senatorial campaign in South Carolina in a way which seems to indicate an erroneous viewpoint as to the political appeal of Senator Blease and ex-Senator Dial. You used the adjective "blatherskite" to describe both Blease and Dial. You also linked the words, "the old-style ranters of the Dial-Blease ilk rave, rage...
...writer supported Dial in 1924 but supported Smith this year. In justice to Mr. Dial, however, we will state that while in this campaign he apparently hoped for some support from the Blease following, his normal appeal and his usual strength (which is small) comes from the conservative, business class of folk. On the stump, he cannot, to any degree, approach the campaign style of either of his opponents this year nor of his opponents two years...
...have in this country. We do not have in Great Britain the same catering to the graduates of our schools, partly because the schools are entirely or almost entirely independent of the financial support of the alumni. We do not have endowment drives and our university presidents are not campaign managers...
...presdential is merely our modern and highly refined substitute for the ancient revolution a mobilization of opposing forces, a battle of the ins against the cuts, with leaders and strategy and campaign chests and all the other paraphernilia of civil war, but without bodily violence to the warriors. This refinement of the struggle for political control, this transition from bullets to ballots is perhaps the greatest contributor of modern times to the progress of civilization...
...will not be because of any sane conviction that protection is better than liberty, that inequality in equality is too devastating a method of existence. Rather will it be the direct result of a good advertising campaign, backed by Butter and Eggers, outlined by gentlemen from a New York or Gopher Praicie agency, land dependent for its success upon the credulity of some and the sense of humor, of the rest...