Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failed. In 1905 he ran for Mayor of New York City on an anti-Tammany ticket and lost by a small margin. In 1906 he took the Tammany nomination for Governor and then broke with Tammany. The Demicratic ticket was elected? all but himself. In 1907 he backed his campaign manager for sheriff ?as a Republican. In 1909 he ran again for Mayor of New York and lost. In 1910 he ran for Lieutenant Governor and lost. His ventures were attended with worse and worse luck at the polls. He has never been able to get the same circulation...
...Mayor Hylan has succeeded in so humiliating Walker during the comparatively short period the primary campaign has been under way that the prospect of his ever surviving another six weeks of excoriationtion is entirely remote...
...York World: "It has been a dirty campaign. That is certain. But if any one thinks that Messrs. Hearst and Hylan can be fought with a cool and dignified appeal to reason he has failed to understand their power and their methods...
...Yale Abandons Daily Compulsory Chapel," reads a dispatch from New Haven. One's first impulse is to rush to congratulate the Yale News for bringing to a successful issue its long campaign against anachronistic restrictions of religious liberty. Has a new era of liberalism at last dawned at Yale...
...mountain ridge that forms the backbone of the Riff sausage and had to fight separately for every little foothill. Nonetheless, the losses apparently were not heavy, and an advance was made several miles deep on a 40-mile front. Thirteen of the blockhouses (the French advance posts before the campaign began and the Riffs took them) were recaptured. For three days the French advanced, and then they rested and consolidated their positions. The French are not "out of the woods" yet-they are just getting into the mountains. They have small prospect of gaining a decision before winter...