Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...franc, is the news that a Fascist movement is underway in Germany. Taking advantage of the anti-administration reaction to the Genevan disappointment, Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, through the influential medium of the Telegraph Union, a news syndicate which he controls, is about to launch a nation-wide campaign to promote the establishment of a dictatorship, Meanwhile he hopes to win over the various anti-republican factions to his standard, thus forming a powerful organization corresponding to the black shirted myrmidons of Mussolini...
Because President Coolidge stands as the political enigma of the country, an ordinary Senatorial campaign in Massachusetts takes on the aspect of a critical duel. In the President's home state, his friend and adviser, Senator William M. Butler, must vanquish the popular ex-Senator David L. Walsh or else expose the Administration to uncertain danger...
...popular puzzle to determine definitely upon what foundations Mr. Coolidge's power rests, whether it is rooted in party or tradition or principally in Massachusetts. The coming campaign bids fair to solve a part of this riddle, that portion which asks whether Massachusetts support is essential to the present administration...
...away from Mr. Coolidge in the eyes of fickle politicians? Would his hopes for a third term fade? These are interesting speculations. If shorn of his home support, the President should remain in the saddle, he would afford an instance of party control remarkable in American history The coming campaign which is fraught with such intriguing possibilities will be more zestfully watched than is usually the case with senatorial battles...
Returning to London, "der alte Jude" tish-toshed with the Queen, billet-douxed his grandmothers-in-love, plunged into affairs with Egypt, Afghanistan, South Africa. But death, defeat and Gladstone were upon him. In the elections in 1880, Gladstone introduced stump oratory to British democracy. Through his campaign in the constituency of Midlothian he appealed to the country. Economy for those at home, freedom for oppressed nations abroad-finance and Christian idealism?these were his two topics. In the battle of Midlothian, he temporarily buried Disraeli's glory under an unprecedented Liberal victory. "Nothing more than trouble and trial await...