Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such paraphernalia of war; they have resorted to the use of unfriendly courts and have sought to bind the workers hand and foot by the issuance of court injunctions stripping the worker of nearly every right guaranteed him under the Constitution; they have, in substance and effect, conducted a campaign of community terrorism in the isolated mining villages...
Where are the candidates of five years ago? Harding is dead. Requiescat. Cox exists. Requiescat. Coolidge sits in the White House, where there is no rest. Lowden is busy farming and perhaps planning for the campaign of '28. McAdoo resides not many miles from San Francisco, where he failed of the nomination in '20. And Wood? Wood is across the Pacific with the Igorots and the Moros and their more civilized but equally quarrelsome neighbors...
...Attorney for Colonel Sprague declared: "There was a meeting in New York fin 1920] of a group of wealthy men, friends of General Wood. They agreed that the campaign would cost $1,000,000 and that they would underwrite it. A substantial part of that amount was raised and taken by Procter and spent in an expensive and elaborate campaign, and he continued to spend to a total...
...notes from Colonel Procter, which were on exhibit in court, and he declared on the stand that the grand total of his contributions was in the neighborhood of $600,000. In spite of this massing of money, the fund was exhausted in May of that year and the campaign "collapsed...
...Harvard. Yale, and Princeton has given the coaches a chance to have their men in excellent shape for the initial contest. They have been greatly aided in this by Trainer Farrell who has given up his active fall coaching of track to condition the gridiron men for their campaign...