Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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August Heckscher, famed Manhattan philanthropist, felt it incumbent upon him to write a letter to the New York Times explaining why in the recent mayoralty election he contributed to the campaign funds of both parties. He said...
...this not to help bring out the vote-most of us knew that the Mayor-elect did not need any special effort-only to help pay the bills. As you are well aware, when a campaign is over the political parties are like the larks in the morning. All their little bills are over...
There is only one Liggett's, but it is iterated 300 times in the U. S., 40 times in Canada, 700 times in England.* Recently the Liggett Co. began a campaign of extension on the Pacific Coast. In Los Angeles it bought four stores of the Kress Drug Co.; in Oakland five of the Bowman Co.; in Glendale another thriving shop. In Seattle it began to negotiate for the ten Bartel drug stores; in Tacoma for three stores of the French Drug Co. Last week it completed the largest of its late amalgamations by purchasing (for $500,000 cash...
...secret that an entire new House of Representatives and a third of the Senate will be elected in the fall of 1926. It is equally no secret that Democrats are laying as thorough plans as possible to capture that election.* Not the least part of the plan of campaign is to get one or more issues that will carry them to victory. In the last election they apparently learned that indiscriminate and ubiquitous opposition to anything that bears the label of an opposing party will produce burning issues...
...seven prizes to be awarded the competitors are as follows: a gold medal to the individual or organization best meriting recognition for distinguished contemporary services to advertising; two prizes of two thousand dollars each;--one for a national campaign, the other for a local campaign; two thousand dollars for the advertising research of the year judged most conspicuous either for securing economy or efficiency in advertising, or for reducing or precluding unwise expenditure in a specific advertising program; three prizes of one thousand dollars each,--for the advertisement most effective in text, that most effective in use of pictorial illustration...