Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican. The Republican primary campaign drew to a close with desultory firing, while the victorious Coolidge forces entrenched themselves on the field...
...flurry was caused by a letter from Mayor Curley (Democrat) of Boston to Senator David Ignatius Walsh. The Mayor asked for an investigation of the Coolidge campaign fund contributions on the basis of the following paragraph from a letter sent out by the chairman of the "Pipe Fitting and Allied Material Group" in Massachusetts to make collections...
...second sentence seemed to imply a deliberate attempt to evade the law. It was discovered, however, that there was no Federal statute to be evaded, for the reason that there really is no legal limit to the amount an individual may give for such a campaign...
...campaign against the Manchu dynasty was intensified and from foreign soils he led the Young China Party in its ultimately victorious battle against the Emperor. In 1911 the storm of Revolution at last began to discharge its lightning; Dr. Sun hurried to China, became first Provisional President. On Jan. 5, 1912, the Chinese Empire became the Republic of China: the Manchus had been deposed, but the six-year- old boy-Emperor was allowed to keep his title for life and the Government promised to grant him a yearly subsidy for the same period...
...reaching more than half the physicians in the U. S. Dr. Simmons is also credited with inaugurating the attack on fraudulent patent medicines and nostrums, with stimulating the advance in medical education, with first providing the facts that led to the "safe and sane July 4" campaign, and with decreasing the number of typhoid deaths in American cities...