Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Election day brought the campaign to an abrupt demise...
Candidate Coolidge terminated his inactive campaign by an Election eve radio speech inviting voters to vote? and ceased to be a candidate...
...campaign is a dull thing to some of the onlookers, it is an exceedingly wearisome business for the candidates. But even for the candidates there is occasional relief. Charles G. Dawes,. peregrinating from stump to stump, halted at Hannibal. Under an ancient guide, he inspected the famous Tom Sawyer cave -a cave which Jesse James and his many men had also used. "Where," asked the General with reverence, "did Tom Sawyer find the opening out on to the river bank?" "We're coming to it," answered the guide. "But right here is where he found Injun...
...Campaign bunk is affecting the American people less in this election than in any previous one, in the opinion of Professor W. B. Munro, G '99, given while he was discussing the result of Tuesday's balloting...
...will not rejoice that the hour of hoarse spellbinders has at length passed? Wholesale tilting against windmills is over. Campaign literature can now light the first winter fires; and the much shouted at burger can return to straphanging and the comics. Best of all, the tumult has availed but little. Forty five percent of the voters will vote as their grandfathers did, forty five percent will vote as their husbands dictate, and the other misled ten percent will vote intelligently. Yet it is those few who will make of today another interesting episode in the drama of American life...