Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the last political campaign, Democrats and Progressives harried Republicans with the demand: "Why hasn't President Coolidge acted on the Tariff Commission's recommendations for a reduction in the tariff on sugar? Is he trying to hold off until after election...
...National Democrat announced that the Democratic National Committee was out of debt, that Chairman Clem L. Shaver had induced wealthy Democrats to underwrite the $280,000 deficit left over from last year's campaign...
...Brigham Young and others, scouring the U. S., England, Wales, Denmark, won many true believers and pious pro-creators, mostly women. Shiploads swarmed to Nauvoo. Returning from one proselyting campaign, Young found the Prophet shot dead by some Illinoisians who had chosen to regard him as a promulgator of "abominations and whoredoms...
There is scarcely a college in the country which has not produced some sign of symbol of student ferment during the present college year. Here it takes the form of a campaign against compulsory chapel, there it is advice to the Trustees and Faculty as to how to run the college, again it is a barbed critique of the mental habits of the students themselves...
...those persons among us who claim--and, it must be admitted, with no little reason--that many students do not even do as much thinking as is absolutely necessary. The colleges themselves now recognize this condition and in virtually every one of them there is being conducted a campaign to persuade young men and women to look upon study not as a memory exercise but as an opportunity to do some independent thinking. As for giving students time off from their studies, that has been done, too. But it will be noted that the proper safeguards are invariably in evidence...