Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Brookhart: "This is where the price-fixing proposition comes in and that dogma of price-fixing now rises up to nullify the pledge the President made, the one that perhaps influenced more farmers than any other in the campaign...
Candidate Hoover discussed husbandry and its problems in his closing campaign speech, at St. Louis. President Hoover recommended to Congress a farm relief plan, consisting of tariff revisions and the creation of a Federal Farm Board with "adequate working capital" to reorganize marketing, to assist co-operatives handle surplus crops. Later, he opposed the export debenture plan produced by the Senate, whereby exporters of farm produce would receive a bounty equal to one-half the tariff rate on the same commodity (TIME, April...
Last week Senator Brookhart called the Senate's attention to quotations from Mr. Hoover's campaign speeches, contrasted them with his official statements as President...
Last July when the 1930 fiscal year began, President Coolidge, on the advice of Budget Director Lord and Treasury Estimator McCoy, warned of a deficit next June of 94 million dollars. Though it was only on paper, it was used in the campaign as an argument by Republicans against a change in administration, by Democrats as a sign of bad stewardship. By October, President Coolidge foresaw an even break between receipts and expenditures. By December, when President Coolidge sent his budget to Congress, he had discovered a timorous little surplus of 37 millions peeping up at him. By March...
...Begun last winter, when American Tobacco Co. initiated its famed "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet" series, the publicity war has already produced an astonishing number of alarms and excursions. Indignant outbursts have proceeded from Candy Weekly and other sugar centres. Competing cigarets have rebuked the Lucky campaign.* Advertising itself has engaged in an intermural struggle over "tainted" v. "honest" testimonials. The Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission have been invited to act as advertising disinfectants. Object of last week's attack, however, was not directly American Tobacco Co., but Merlin Aylesworth's National Broadcasting...