Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this point of his career that Mr. Nichols so impressed Innes that the Republican boss decided to support him; and now, 21 years later, Mr. Nichols is mayor largely because he received the Innes support in the campaign...
When in September Mr. Nichols received the support of Eliot Wadsworth '98 as the head of his all-party committee, the fight was practically won. With the Innes machine openly backing him, Mr. Nichols conducted a forceful campaign and received the important endorsement of the Good Government Association...
...open meeting for all members of the University on next Tuesday. Modelled on the debating unions of Oxford and Cambridge, this organization originally filled a vacant niche in the extra-curriculum world and provided opportunity for informal witty speaking. Last year, following the brief flare of the presidential campaign clubs, its intermittent energy waned again...
Glasgow University last week elected a lord chancellor. As the first voters approached the polls, they were greeted by a sally of thoroughly putrefied eggs. Pease meal followed, a light shower, and a few handfuls of soot. More voters appeared and the campaign arguments thickened-clouds of eggs, bursting with fabulous stench; here a rich asortment of cod heads raining down; there a herring, another, a shoal of flying herrings long since removed from the sea. Fogs of soot darkened the scene and a blizzard of meal. Scraping fish omelet from their eyes, the partisans closed in ardent wrestling bouts...
Robart, according to his campaign committee, is an experienced man, and is "pledged to do away with the laxities of administration, particularly in the city treasury, which have brought the present regime and the city of Cambridge itself into disrepute...