Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan of New York dry leaders to draw Senator Borah into the prohibition war in New York state. For there the issues are more clear cut than elsewhere and demand the services of experienced war horses. The issues which portend confusion for the next presidential campaign have, in the Empire state, been drawn to a head. Whereas the present concern with prohibition has been accentuated in all states by the Coolidge order bringing state officials into Federal revenue service, in New York there are two definite questions confronting the combatants. The one involves the popular referendum contemplated in that state...
Then it was that Senator Jim Reed sprung a surprise, and for once the fighting Missourian had the Democrats behind him to a man. He called a resolution ordering a special committee of five Senators to investigate campaign expenditures, a committee on which there should be two regular Republicans, one Progressive Republican and two Democrats?giving the opposition the majority...
...LaFollette (Progressive Republican), Reed of Pennsylvania and Deneen (Republicans). But three of these promptly withdrew?Reed of Pennsylvania, Deneen and Bayard. In their places were appointed Fernald, Goff and King. Fernald withdrew and Mr. Dawes named McNary. The reason for the numerous withdrawals were chiefly connected with the coming campaign...
...going to tell you now a story which is the explanation of that anti-Socialist campaign which I have conducted in my own country for nearly three years, singlehanded, since the War. . . ." And he reported how Historian-Novelist H. G. Wells?whose Socialism is largely of the parlor variety?had (sarcastically, ironically) said to him, when Frankau had promised the destruction of the German Empire: "Well, Frankau, I hope you break the British Empire too." (While Frankau fought in Flanders the sedentary Wells had merely stayed at home writing Mr. Britling Sees It Through and other literature...
...case splashed along delightfully, few Manhattanites really caring that it was part of Attorney Buckner's zealous campaign to make Manhattan as dry as the letter of the Volstead Act, few paying any special attention to Attorney Buckner's able young assistants, who conducted much of the cross-questioning. Yet for persons to whom Manhattan's nympholepsy and relative humidity have no charm, the case still had keen interest, since one of the young assistant attorneys chanced to be John Marshall Harlan, grandson and namesake of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan...