Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Butler now has his reward. After steering the Republican campaign to a decisive victory, he finds himself by a turn of Fate catapulted into the office of Senator from Massachusetts. It has been recognized ever since the campaign that Mr. Butler certainly could hope for a Gabjnet position under the Coolidge administration, but the death of Senator Lodge, and Mr. Butler's own predilections for the Senate have determined it otherwise. The change from the scholarly Lodge to the practical business man, Butler, will be significant in more ways than...
Gradually the country quieted. There were to be no disturbances. Mr. Stearns, the veteran business man, was joined at the President's side by Mr. Slemp, the veteran politician. Other acquisitions came?an Airedale, a fox terrier, a collie and finally William M. Butler, the Campaign Manager...
...LaFollette attacked the "special privilege" which "honeycombed" the old Parties. Mr. Wheeler stung the personal records of Coolidge and Dawes. But in part, at least, LaFollette and Wheeler were kept on the defensive about their Supreme Court proposal, about Government ownership of the railways. Yet they made a brilliant campaign...
...last stroke of the campaign was struck by the Republicans. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon ordered that the gross amounts of tax returns by individuals and corporations should be made public. The law which made this possible was passed over the Administration's protest by Democrats and insurgents. A howl of rage went up from business men everywhere. Perhaps Secretary Mellon meant to suggest by his gesture: "You may expect more of this if you support our opponents...
...general election, which is to end at the polls on Dec. 7, began to make its thunder heard. &182; Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, leader of the Catholic or Centre Party, opened his campaign at Berlin by attacking the Nationalists (Monarchists) and their demand for the publication of a denial of Germany's War guilt. Said he: "If we strive to have the Versailles self-confession of War guilt annulled, we do so simply for moral reasons. It would be fatal selfdelusion to believe that, if we succeeded in having that self-confession annulled, we should be liberated from the obligations...