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Word: campaign (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge has a New-English way of telling a story for all his taciturnity. Speaking to the Ohio Society, he told a story of the Garfield-Hancock campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Garfield vs. Hancock | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

...campaign to enroll men for summer work with the Grenfell Mission in Labrador will begin on Monday, February 11 and will last through the week, it was announced last night. Two sophomomores have been delegated to conduct the drive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABRADOR WORKERS SEEK NEW RECRUITS | 2/8/1924 | See Source »

...Wickersham held the post of Attorney-General under President Taft from 1909-13, and received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1921. As a Republican who has taken a keen interest in promoting the Bok Peace campaign, he is eminently fitted to discuss the Plan from an authoritative and non-partisan point of view...

Author: By George W. Wickersham, | Title: SAYS BOK PLAN WILL CLARIFY U.S. PROBLEM | 2/7/1924 | See Source »

...American people. The principle of an agreement among the nations to preserve peace was avowed by the Republican party, but the League crested by the Versailles treaty was deneituced as a "Wilson League", and as creating a super state. Moreover, Mr. Harding in the course of the campaign suggested taking what was good in the League and excising what was objectionable, so as to arrive finally at the ideal of "an association of nations, cooperating in sublime accord, to attain and preserve peace through justice rather than force...

Author: By George W. Wickersham, | Title: SAYS BOK PLAN WILL CLARIFY U.S. PROBLEM | 2/7/1924 | See Source »

There were many other issues in the campaign. The general dissatisfaction with the Wilson administration, without any doubt produced the overwhelming vote for Harding and Coolidge. There was no definite national referendum upon the clean cut issue of American participation in a League or Association to preserve the peace of the world. Out of the contest in the Senate over the Versailles treaty there developed an intransigent frame of mind in the so-called "bitter enders" which made impossible the advancement of any proposition for "the" or "an" Association or League. This state of mind nearly wrecked the treaties negotiated...

Author: By George W. Wickersham, | Title: SAYS BOK PLAN WILL CLARIFY U.S. PROBLEM | 2/7/1924 | See Source »

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