Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cummins has probably pursued the wisest course. He has conducted a quiet "personal" campaign, without rushing out to his constituents with wild alarms. His supporters have told Iowa that it must choose "Cummins or Communism." But on the whole they have not done much speechmaking. On the main issue, farm relief, the Senator made a speech last week in the Senate declaring...
...developments of the campaign have been peculiar. The bitterness between the partisans of Cummins and of Brookhart has grown steadily, yet there have been few visible signs that either of them is arousing Iowa...
There is little news value in colonial and military inefficiency. The reason for the great popular interest in the Riffian campaign lies rather in the picturesque character of the conflict, where a race endowed with little more than good rifles and the ability to stand up for themselves even in an unfair fight taught the French and Spanish armies that late sad experience has not exhausted the combinations possible in war. The Riffian rebellion began as an unimportant matter of suppressing a few inconvenient barbarians; it developed into a conflict where airplanes and modern discipline were hard...
...Realizing that the National Student Federation is divorced from all religious, racial, and political organizations, be it resolved that the E. I. N. A. go on record as favoring the Federation and its growth and that each member paper conduct an educational news campaign for the Federation and comment editorially upon...
...stroke is a rather clever one, but there are considerations which lead one to expect that it may be ineffectual. The salient difference between the western independent and his Nebraska predecessor, stands in the way. Bryan knew only the politics of a presidential campaign. Otherwise his agitation was rather academic. He could mount a chatauqua platform without bothering political compeers. But Borah, now so much of a figure in the Senate, cannot enter New York politics without prudence; and prudence rather devitalizes a crusader. One is inclined to believe that Mr. Borah will value his independent reputation in the Senate...