Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Committee did nothing to improve this condition. Mr. Shaver is not only shy and inexperienced, but as yet he has failed to exhibit traces of the dynamic, directing energy which is necessary to knit the local organizations into a great unit for the purposes of a national campaign. Many of the local units are strong, but they remain largely uncoordinated. The difficult task of altering this condition, therefore, rests largely on the candidate himself. He has been overtaken by a host of necessary conferences, of campaign appointments, of arrangements for raising adequate campaign funds. His duties are doubled...
There is one respect in which his trouble is diminished. The Democrats are usually faced with more difficulties in raising campaign funds than are the Republicans. This is evidently going to be the case this year. In spite of the misfortune for Mr. Davis which has risen from the fact that he has been labeled "a lawyer of the big business interests," the fact remains that these same interests seem more inclined to contribute to the Coolidge than the Davis campaign chest. But a report came out of Washington that, at President Coolidge's orders, the Republicans are going...
...occurred the rise of the Madhi, "Guide of Islam," whose policy was to evict the Egyptians. Then followed the defeat of the Egyptians, the murder of General Gordon, the campaign under Field Marshal Lord Wolsley and later that by an Anglo-Egyptian force under General Sir H. Kitchener (later Field Marshal Lord Kitchener...
Following the latter campaign, which ended in 1898, an Anglo-Egyptian condominium to rule the Sudan was established. Britain declared at the time, and has never deviated from her contention, that the Sudan, "having been reconquered by joint military and financial efforts of Great Britain and Egypt, claims by right of conquest to share in the legislation and administration of the country." That is why the Sudan is known today as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
...years ago he joined the Innis-killing Dragoons, saw much service in Africa. At the beginning of the War as a Major General, he commanded the British Third Army. As a General he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and conducted the Holy Land Campaign. At the conclusion of hostilities he was made a Field Marshal created a peer and awarded ?50,000 by the British Parliament...