Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever heard during the campaign any talk about enforcing the laws against murder or theft or robbery? . . . In an unguarded moment I allowed myself to be persuaded to insert [in the Prohibition investigation authorization] the parenthetical words 'together with the enforcement of other laws.' There was no purpose on earth to make other laws the feature. . . . But now what has happened? The parenthesis has been made the main thesis. Prohibition enforcement has been submerged...
Nowhere could Senator Glass find that President Hoover was pledged never to try to alter the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act: "In the campaign the most he ever said was that he did 'not favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment' but he nowhere has said that he might not advocate modification...
...Denounced stockmarket gambling. A few days later Bishop Cannon himself was disclosed as a buyer and seller of stocks on margin in Wall Street. While not denying the facts, he loudly complained it was all "a contemptible Tammany trick" to discredit him at the opening of his Virginia campaign...
...steel and automobile manufacturers of Turin and Milan were among the earliest and most enthusiastic backers of Fascism. Last week the Fascist Party, grown great under Benito Mussolini, was able to do a return favor for the manufacturers, and at the same time carry on its campaign to build up Italy's commercial power...
Died. Charles Francis Brush, 80, famed scientist, inventor of an arc light and storage battery, lately appointed national chairman of a campaign for a $2,250,000 endowment fund by the American Philosophical Society; in Cleveland...