Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there in order to offset the situation in his own state. Mr. Johnson's fences are in none too good repair at home. The California Republican organization is against him, the southern Californians do not like his isolationist policies and the Hoover-Coolidge supporters are strong. Mr. Johnson's campaign is barely getting started and it will probably have plenty of financial backing. William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing gum) and Albert D. Lasker (advertising), ex-Chairman of the Shipping Board, are evidently behind...
...Consideration of the Administration tax bill. There are clear indications that the " regular" Republicans will back the plan and make it the basis of their campaign in 1924. Representative William R. Green, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and Senator Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, will nurse the bill in their committees. The great problem for the Administration will be on the floors of both Houses. In the Senate the Republicans hold 51 out of 96 seats. In the House the Republicans have 225 out of 435 seats. But seven Republican Senators are La Follette insurgents...
...ever-thoughtful Mr. Gompers has been spurred to further efforts to keep America from the rocks. This time the irritant is William Randolph Hearst who, it seems, has been conducting an insidious campaign for the recognition of Soviet Russia. And, according to Mr. Gompers "Hearst knows that American labor, the American people, and the American Government want nothing to do with the bloody ministers of Moscow...
...unwarranted. The CRIMSON proved to all, except those who were determined not to believe, that there was a comparatively large number of Klansmen within the walls of the University and that they acted as a body. It believed and it believes still that this is "substantial foundation" for a campaign against the Klan at Harvard. It agrees with the New York Times that "the University authorities well might search their hearts carefully to find out how it happens that even one of the young men whom they were supposed to be teaching reason and truth should have been led astray...
...been committed for eighty years to the practice which supplies that food at the lowest price and leads to the greatest development of international trade. Twenty years ago Joseph Chamberlain, fresh from his triumphs as Colonial Secretary took up the cry of protection and carried on a whirlwind campaign which ended only in the smashing Conservative defeat of 1906. Led by Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith, the Liberals just recovered from the divisions of the Boer war, rode to their greatest victory of the century on the horse of free-trade--a victory they are hoping to repeat by the same...