Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this concession to the South? Senator Hiram Johnson declared it was an effort of C. Bascom Slemp to put over the nomination of Mr. Coolidge by patronage-bought delegates from the South. But it is known, on the other hand, that Mr. Johnson's own campaign manager, Frank H. Hitchcock, is an "expert broker of Southern delegates...
...Duke's immediate object is to raise 100,000,000 rubles ($51,400,000, pre-War rate) for his propaganda campaign. He appointed the Cossack General, Krasnov, as his aide-de-camp, and rented the Villa Choigny at Sauteny, Seine-et-Oise, as the temporary headquarters of the new movement...
...some years employed in special editorial work for Harper's, Century and other large publishing houses. From 1907 to 1910 he was editor-in-chief of the Butterick publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea, English Delineator). In 1907 he was also engaged in organizing a National Child Rescue Campaign. Among his novels are: Sister Carrie, The Genius, The Titan, Jennie Gerhardt. In 1919 he published Hey, Rub-a-Dub-Dub, a volume of essays...
...first adventure came at the age of 18 when The Melbourne Argus sent him to Egypt to cover the British campaign in the Soudan following the disastrous siege that ended when General Gordon's head rolled 'down the steps of the palace in Khartoum. There followed several years of wandering in the Far East, .with the Bunbury Expedition in New Guinea and elsewhere. In 1890 he came to Vancouver, and during the next eight years was on the staff of several papers on the West Coast...
Then came another war. The San Francisco Chronicle sent him to Cuba as correspondent in the Santiago campaign. He was wounded, contracted a fever, but had hardly grown well when he started for South Africa and the Boer War. It was from that time that his close friendship with Lord Kitchener was said to date...