Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those chimeras which the Society is fighting in its campaign for the 'New Puritanism.' Sit in my office day in and day out, and hear the moral tragedies recited, and you will realize that out of the heart are the issues of life, and these tragedies are often connected with vile books and pictures. A whole class of unwedded mothers may be the result of a lascivious book...
...advising this choice, the Senate ratified it by a margin of only four ballots. The matter had been left suspended so long that it involved not only the politics of the last election and of the Senate generally, but also of the coming mid-term campaign. Despite the unanimity of the committee, there was no certitude of the actualities of the lowa election sufficient to preclude the play of political preference on the floor of the Senate...
...last year's schedule and Chauncey, husky 1928 catcher, have been fighting for possession of the Crimson mask all spring. Both men will probably see action today, but Coach Mitchell has decided that it shall be DeRham that will call the first signal of the 1926 diamond campaign...
...blows last week were oratorically delivered. Overt acts: In Rhode Island, the House of Representatives passed a resolution requesting the Senators and Representatives of Rhode Island in the U. S. Congress to submit the question to a national referendum. In Wisconsin, the Butter Makers Association launched a campaign to line up all dairymen on the dry side, on the ground that a dry U. S. would spend millions more on milk than a wet U. S. In New York, the supposedly dry Republican majority of the Assembly was broken and the enforcement act failed to pass...
During the last week, Mr. Baker has been in the East. Soon he will head for Nevada, to open his campaign to wrest the Senate seat from Republican Senator Oddie, whose term is expiring...