Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work desire has been thwarted. He had no hand in Cabinetmaking. In Florida, he spent listless days waiting to see the President-elect whom perhaps he thought he had made. In fact, Dr. Work's life has been unhappy almost since the Hoover nomination. Subordinates in the campaign refused to be subordinate. His resignation was demanded as a result of the Willebrandt anti-Catholic outbursts. And when, after a victory, a National Chairman cannot get jobs for his friends, his only course is resignation...
...mentioned above, that laboratory work, perhaps fifteen hours a week in a single course, is not interrupted. Secondly, the literature on the subject matter of even the most highly specialized courses is so vast that two or three weeks scarcely gives one time to organize his reading campaign. A lengthening of the reading periods, accompanied by a cessation of laboratory work, might help matters from the point of view of the reading period, but in Comparative Anatomy, for example, the work is covered all too quickly as it is, and cutting a month from the schedule would be disastrous...
...last two seasons have found the Crimson and Marine diamond dusters embattled in early campaign clashes, and the Leatherneck forces have emerged victorious in both games. During the 1928 southern invasion, the University nine was sent down by a 2 to 1 score in an eleven inning struggle. The Marines defeated Harvard this spring when the Crimson once again sallied forth below the Mason and Dixon line. The final count was 6 to 3, but this year's Harvard team lost several valuable scoring opportunities through failure to hit when the bases were occupied. Howard Whitmore '29, will...
More and more stringent grow the drink laws of teetotaling Emilio Portes Gil, President of Mexico. Those who believed that his temperance campaign would be merely a "plan of persuasion and education against drink" were shaken by a bill he signed last week. By it the police were empowered to close instantly and forever any saloon, cabaret or liquor shop where "scandalous conduct" is reported. Worried publicans bit their nails in anxiety over what the police might consider "scandalous conduct...
...Last week, President Dawes's brother, Charles Gates Dawes, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, received credit for a whirlwind (two-day) campaign in which ten million dollars were raised for the Fair by appeals to potent Chicagoans...