Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guest of Samuel Gompers and the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor at a luncheon. Said he to the assembled Laborites: "I have been elected President of Mexico through the expressed will of the working classes of my country, because ever since I began my political campaign I said clearly and without any equivocation, speaking of my country, that I would look for help only in the working classes and that I desired that in the political campaign the reactionary elements remain my enemies and be the ones to fight against my candidacy. I have won through...
...National Non-Partisan Political Campaign Committee, a subcommittee of the Executive Council, issued its report, of which the following are the salient points...
...call upon the wage earners and the great masses of the people every where, who stand for Freedom, Justice, Democracy and human progress, to rally in this campaign to the end that the representatives of reaction and special interests may be defeated and the faithful friends and servants of the masses be elected...
...great Spanish litterateur, Professor Don Miguel, de Unamuno, recently liberated by general amnesty (TIME, July 28), arrived in France, where he intends to continue his campaign against Dictator Primo. He declared that he could not accept Primo's amnesty, asserted that. Primo needed amnesty, not he. "I cannot accept .the Spanish amnesty," he said, "but I can accept French hospitality. My banishment consisted of 'being thrown onto the island of Fuerteventura, which nature dropped into the ocean like a slice of the Sahara Desert. I lived for months on this arid island, many times suffering from thirst...
Died. John Quinn, 54, famed Art collector; in Manhattan. He once conducted a campaign which resulted in the removal of all duties on modern works of Art brought into...