Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Addressing a "Political Campaign School" for women, in the East Room, Mr. Coolidge declared: "I am glad to welcome you here in the White House because it is first of all, I hope, an American home, and after that it is for the use of such social and official functions as are necessarily a part of the office which I hold...
Last week the Non-Partisan Political Campaign Committee of the American Federation of Labor set forth its demands. The declaration was signed by Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison, James O'Connell. It called...
Although Mustapha Kemal Pasha has encountered several serious obstacles in his campaign for the modernization of Turkey, he ean count at least one success to his credit. Some of the decisions of the Angora government have seemed impolitic to outsiders, and in his determination to interfere with the foreign schools in Constantinople the Pasha was hardly diplomatic; but the recently discovered tolerance of the average Turkish citizen toward the moving pictures indicates that Occidentalism is growing faster than the world has been led to suspect. Whether this latest development is due to the efforts of Kemal, of whether...
...written language of literature are very different Added to the poverty of people and government and the natural difficulty of mastering the thousands of characters required to convey Chinese thought on paper this handicap might prove insurmountable. In spite of these grave difficulties Chinese educators have launched an advertising campaign to impress the people with the desirability of national literacy which has already begun to prove its effectiveness...
...broadcasting of an appeal to make use of these facilities. The arguments against illiteracy are sufficiently convincing if only they are placed emphatically before illiterates. A shifting of some of the present fervid discussion to the problem of beginnings in education is a necessary first step toward a campaign against the disgrace of illiteracy...