Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accommodations in the existing buildings of the school quite inadequate. The reading rooms are already overcrowded by students; and the rooms available for professors will not supply every member of the faculty with an adequate office. The accommodations for research are very inadequate. The school is entering upon a campaign to raise money for the completion of Langdell Hall, the principal building of the school, by more than doubling its present size. Money is also asked for additional professorships greatly needed and for additional scholarships. The school believes that it may confidently expect its graduates, and those interested...
...Commissior; in eleven years. It took action ir about 1,000 of these cases. Of late, Congress has got more and more in the habit of asking the Commission to make investigations. Recently, President Coolidge appointed W. E. Humphrey, onetime (1903-17) Congressman from Washington, his pre-Convention campaign manager in the West, to the Commission. Then things began to happen-for the first time the conservatives were in control. Two overt acts...
...faith. Said Mr. Bryan: "It is a great pleasure to endorse something that will pass this Assembly unanimously." He added that he had had two residences at the Capital as well as "frequently anticipated ones." Will H. Hayes, elder, reported prog-ress in his $5,000,000 campaign for pensions for ministers. Such men as Andrew W. and Richard B. Mellon, Frederick E. Weyerhauser, Robert Lansing, Senator McKinley have been included on his committee. Said he: "To keep him [the minister], his wife and his family clothed, fed and educated, we pay him $30 a week, scarcely more than...
...became known that Edward Elwell Whiting, an editor of the Boston Herald, had called at the White House, had been refused admittance. Also, that Robert Morris Washburn had suffered a similar disappointment . Both are authors of laudatory biographies of the President . Both biographies were used extensively in the 1924 campaign . Both tell how a Massachusetts legislator once introduced Mr. Coolidge with the words : " Like the singed cat , he is better than he looks . " But exactly why the President is offended (if he is offended), not one politician could tell another...
...searched in vain for it. I finally found it in a technical handbook." It was not charged that quotation of the President in this instance amounted to fraud, but it was noticed that this was the second attempt this month to capitalize Mr. Coolidge in a stock-selling campaign. The first attempt was made by the De Forest Phonofilm Corporation, which is now under investigation (TIME, May 18, THE PRESS). Annoyance at the White House became perceptible...