Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preparation for the 1924 baseball campaign will begin in earnest next Monday afternoon with a meeting for all candidates at the Locker Building, according to an announcement made last night by Manager Pantaleoni. Daily workouts for infield and outfield candidates will begin on that date, and the batterymen, whose duties have not yet been arduous, will begin a period of more strenuous work...
...annual Lincoln Day dinner of the National Republican Club, at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, President Coolidge expressed himself on Government policies at such length as he has done only once before, in his message to Congress. The Lincoln Day address was fittingly called the opening attack of his campaign for nomination. As such it contained a more extensive explanation of the reasons which have prompted his policies than any previous declaration. Extracts...
...McAdoo wired David L. Rockwell, his campaign manager, to call a conference of his supporters to determine "in cold-blood" whether they still wanted him for President...
Frederic W. Wile, who, as a correspondent, is almost omniscient as to the histories and political detail of Washington, is not the man to miss a point. He recalled that Edward L. Doheny, famed for oil, was the chief backer of the campaign in this country for Irish freedom, prior to the setting up of the Irish Free State. Mr. Doheny was President of the American Association; for Recognition of the Irish Republic, and as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1920 in San Francisco he made a fight to hammer an Irish freedom plank into the Democratic...
There began in London a campaign to raise $500,000 to establish a permanent opera company. Prime mover is Isadore D. Elara, a British composer who has been well received in Paris. The project takes the guise of the familiar "music for the masses," in that it plans a box office rate of $1 for the best seats. There are to be no highly paid stars, but a large company with full length seasons. The present Covent Garden yearly season lasts only six weeks...