Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newly formed club will have two major purposes. One object is to cut down the increased laundry bills of those students who are now wearing white shirts. The other is to begin an active campaign against the Ku Klux Klan. It is expected that the club will announce a definite platform, stating their policies in regard to these matters after the meeting today...
With the political campaigns for the presidential election of 1924 now emerging from their preliminary stages, the Republican Club of the University is beginning active work in organizing a campaign which will continue until the election of November...
During the week the politicians were active in the election campaign which now sweeps the United Kingdom...
King Alfonso referred to General Rivera as " My Mussolini," and in a speech General Rivera said of Premier Mussolini: " Your figure is no longer only Italian but it is worldwide. You are the apostle of a campaign against dissolution and anarchy in Europe. You have known how to speak to the hearts of your people and have rapidly won them over to order, work and justice. This has been your truly masterful work and therein lies your real strength...
...rousing the large and lethargic population to the rescue of its postal servants. Apparently mailmen are distressingly underpaid, overworked and ill provided for by pension. These points are all driven home in this film with the sounding mallet of melodrama. The purpose of the plan is obviously to provide campaign material for the emancipation of the mail slaves; by its banality it serves another cause equally well-the cause of those who detest the rank old-fashioned type of hiss and cur melodrama...