Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would not be unduly active in promoting any candidate for appointment as enforcement officer, but I do insist that neither you nor he should do anything which will injure my standing in the state in which I live and endanger my chances for re-election in the coming campaign...
...admitted liberal, a Justice in whose decisions the rights of property are likely to be subordinated to the rights of man. Yet he is a stickler for the formalities of the Court. Although a Democrat, after elevation to the Court he declined to contribute to Democratic campaign funds (as he had previously done), holding that the members of the Court must never touch politics. When his own daughter came to plead before the Court there was no precedent, no regulation covering the contingency, but he voluntarily retired from the bench and did not sit on the case. Chief Justice Fuller...
...French Military headquarters great satisfaction was expressed over the precision with which Pétain's forces have recently gained their objectives. The whole campaign which has been evolving recently in the Kifane sector is now declared to be a model for future French tactics in African warfare, and Pétain is credited by observers with having employed unwieldly modern military equipment to the best possible advantage on a front where all modern methods of transportation by rail or water are nonexistent...
...campaign against scientific medicine, the latest organization of Bernarr Macfadden* is the Americanism Protective League. Circulars are being sent to the public with forms addressed to state legislators in the State of New York asking them to oppose the passage of acts regulating the practice of medicine...
...founded in the Philippines in 1921 by Governor General Wood for the care of half-breeds (offspring of Filipmo-U. S. unions), opened offices, issued an appeal* for a fund of $2,000,000. Some 6,000 American residents of the Philippines are members of the Association, and the campaign for funds is sponsored by General Wood, William Howard Taft, W. Cameron Forbes (former Governor General), General James G. Harbord, General Hugh E. Scott, Martin Egan (of J. P. Morgan & Co.). The appeal for 1,800 needy mestizo children, as they are called, said: "These children certainly are worth saving...