Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow brings to Cambridge the Crown Prince of Sweden, whose visit to this country has caused almost as great a publicity campaign as the inauguration of a new cigarette. He will see the Sargent murals, the glass flowers, and have the unusual pleasure of seeing Harvard adorned with a few of those ornaments known to Revere Beach--band stands and wooden fountains. Certain of the idle poor will follow him about to see whether Governor Smith was right in saying that he would make a good president, weren't he a prince. And one more will be listed...
...money went: Vare spent $30,000 for campaign letters, $12,000 for postage, $21,000 for printing, the remainder, for incidentals; Pinchot, $6,000 to his private secretary, who had leave of absence to manage his campaign, the rest mainly for letters and postage; Pepper, $2,500 contributed to his campaign committee...
...Pennsylvania primary three weeks ago roused the Senate to begin an investigation of alleged excessive campaign expenditures (TIME, May 31, THE CONGRESS). Last week the candidates filed their individual expenses (the campaign committees had two weeks longer in which to file their schedules). In the race for the Senate, William S. Vare (Wet), the successful candidate in the primary, spent $71,435.80 out of his own pocket, Governor Pinchot who ran third spent $43,767.31 of his money, and Senator Pepper who ran second depleted his pocket only...
...climax of the agitation written by President von Hindenburg, written to Herr Von Loebell, was the publication of a letter who was a minister of state to Kaiser Wilhelm II and also political campaign manager for General Hindenburg. The President was in Schorfheide when the letter was given out. It was conjectured that the President might not have meant it for publication...
...Washington correspondent and there learned the ins and outs of politics, which stood him in good stead when, in 1919, he started an advertising company in Manhattan with no accounts at all. His first act was to undertake, for the Association of Railroad Executives, an "educational campaign" to lead the public back to the idea that private owners and not the Government were best fitted to operate the country's railways. The public was an apt pupil. The New York Central Railway was so pleased to get its business back into its own hands that it engaged Mr. Logan...