Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Caraway of Arkansas had a newsstory of the affair read into the Congressional Record, refraining carefully, save for a characteristic wrinkling of his nose, from any comment. But South Carolina's Senator Blease blurted: "Didn't I warn my audiences in the South in the last campaign that this would happen, if Hoover should be elected? ... I told them Negroes would be eating in the White House next!" Other Southern Senators, including Texas' Sheppard, Alabama's Heflin, Mississippi's Harrison, "deplored" the event, viewed it as a "recognition of social equality," warned of "infinite...
...above the rank of Captain in the Foreign Legion. But it is also true that one need not explain all one's antecedents to the Legion. Anything but French in appearance, red-thatched Freydenberg nevertheless had such Gallic dash that he became Major, Colonel, and after the Moroccan campaign of 1926 against Abd-El-Krim, General of Brigade...
Tomorrow afternoon the success or failure of the Crimson crew season will be decided. The climactic clash of the campaign with Yale will find the Harvard oarsmen battling against terrific odds and rushing on to what seems to be inevitable defeat...
...undergraduates started a campaign for a new gymnasium but their attempts were discouraged because the authorities of the University felt that a chemical laboratory and a fine arts building were needed more than a new gymnasium. The chemical laboratory and the fine arts building have been finished, and we hope very much that before another year the new indoor athletic building will be in use also. I hope the graduates who are returning for their reunions will find time to visit the site of this building. It is made possible through the generous gifts of three anonymous donors, but unfortunately...
...Rodney Greene, middleaged, has principles. Her campaign of goodness starts when her husband attempts to pollute their nuptial night with cigaret smoke. She bullies her son Geoffrey with sarcasm and pathos, drives him to mask his independence. Thus she realizes her own ideal of good wife, good mother. She invites the other five to a dinner-party...