Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come to the aid of their party. Thirty-four Senators in 32 states (27 seats now Republican) in the autumn Senatorial contest will determine how the country feels in a general way over the issues last week outlined by party "Spokesmen" Lawrence C. Phipps, chairman of the Republican Senatorial campaign committee, and William A. Oldfield, chairman of the Democratic Congressional campaign committee...
...every year below the figures of 1921. "As a result of all this the married taxpayer without other dependents pays nothing on an income of $3,000 a year. In Italy, he pays $599.30, in France, $348, in Belgium $238.45, in England $202.50. "The issue of the campaign is summed up in the fact that the American market today consumes 90 per cent of our production, that the Republican party has protected that market for American wage earners and producers, and that to elect a Democratic senate or house would be a step in the direction of letting down...
...teens kissed their mother as she read the telegram. Mrs. Langley had reason to be proud. She had won the Republican Congressional primary, has no opposition for election to the seat lost when her hus band resigned. She told the press: "While I did not base my campaign on vindication and sympathy - that was proved two years ago by the re-election of Mr. Langley - at the same time I feel that it is a vindication of us. I based my campaign on my own fitness for office...
...Baltimore & Ohio R. R. will move out of the Pennsylvania Terminal in Manhattan. Already a sweeping advertising campaign is telling travelers about a fleet of "Ritzy" parlor busses with special baggage compartments which will scurry from Pershing Square and the Waldorf Hotel to the B. & O. Terminal in Jersey City...
...different from that which it might hold in a Confucian, Shinto, Brahman, or pagan country. For Mexico is obsessed by Aztec nationalism, by a desire to extirpate the religion of those who brought her both Christianity and European civilization, and to exalt the memory of the Montezuman emperors. This campaign has culminated in a feeling that the Roman Church is antinational. This is the reason why we need expect no Mexican, whether Indian or non-Indian, to become a martyr for his faith. It explains, furthermore, why the extraordinarily complex religious situation has not aroused the people, or excited them...