Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CAMPAIGN...
...murmur as the person at whom the protest was directed, for as soon as the applause set in they were frightened into a policy of hopeful waiting. When the applause was to die down they hoped to stir the murmur into a growl and with a late fall campaign to bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Government to force an election...
...sooner had he bowed out of Parliament than he bowed into the annual convention of the Labor Party to start his campaign. And this campaign will be waged with applause still drowning out the murmur of the Russian affair, with the Conservatives unprepared, and with the Liberals undecided which way to turn, shouldering MacDonald's own responsibility for the unpopular election. Almost by coincidence a new electoral register comes into force on October 15, giving the Labor party with its far superior clerical machinery a distinct advantage...
...campaign there had never been any question as to which party the torchlight procession represented,--Harvard had always been Republican. In 1884, however, the Union of the Independent and Democratic parties injected a new question into the plans for the procession. Was there to be one procession representing the majority of Harvard opinion or two separate parades, representative of both Democratic and Republican parties...
...campaign the torchlight procession seems to have reached the height of its popularity. Although it has figured in all the Presidential elections up to 1920 it has never been entered upon with the same enthusiasm as marked its execution in days gone by It seems to have joined the ranks, of Harvard traditions that now are numbered only by the epitaph...