Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With one exception, the University football team will line up against Middlebury with the same eleven that last Daley, veteran of last year's campaign, will not be at his post in the line, the injury he received in the opening game not having healed sufficiently to allow his participation. His place will be filled today by C. H. Bradford...
...Colonel Procter said that he had not been active in politics before, in a national campaign at least, but that he had had some experience, in fact, a lot of experience, in business, and was very familiar with the manner of reaching the people in the homes of the country, but that it took money to do it. He said that in these days it was his idea - to use a commercial expression - to 'sell' the candidate to the people just as if he were an unknown new proprietary article or useful appliance or invention...
...discussion of campaign methods he did not place much importance, if any, on the old mass meetings, torchlight parades, great processions, and public speeches by the candidate. He thought the time had gone by for all that and that up-to-date business methods must be employed, and that that was the way he intended to run the campaign for General Wood...
...question was over a $100,000 note signed by Procter and Sprague. Colonel Procter was obliged to pay off this note, and sued to recover half of the money from Colonel Sprague. Procter asserted that they were equally responsible for the note. Sprague asserted that Procter ran the whole campaign, spending money lavishly in spite of Sprague's protest, and that he signed the note with Procter merely as a secondary endorser so that the bank which discounted the note might know he was co-guarantor and had a part in the transaction...
Another suit is pending before the Illinois Superior Court in which Colonel Procter is seeking to recover from Colonel Sprague half of what he spent in paying up the liabilities left over after the campaign - an amount which is supposed to be several times as large as that at issue in the present v suit...