Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born on a New Hampshire farm, Weeks went abruptly from school-teaching to Annapolis at the age of 16. After some service on the high seas he entered business in Boston and soon became a broker (Hornblower and Weeks), then a financier. During Senator Harding's campaign. Senator Weeks gave "sound advice...
...castle, and he dreams longingly of those bachelor days,-society, the races, and the club. A friend suggests that he get himself elected to the national legislature. This thought appealed to the Count, but he shied at the idea of the cares and troubles of the political campaign...
...face in American politics is necessary for any such understanding. A war in the Balkans interests the average voter as much as a Western train robbery interests a citizen of Greater Boston. President Coolidge believes it unsafe even to bring the question of a world court into the presidential campaign; a question of joining the English commonwealths to stop hostilities between Bulgaria and the Communists might become even more of a political football...
Although this ignoble scene was said to have been caused by personal enmity, observers have it that the rumpus was a sinister forerunner of bloodshed in next year's Presidential campaign...
...slave and sent to Rome. He was rescued from torture by Titus Barrus, young Roman aristocrat and Lieutenant of Caesar. A friendship as strange as it was deep grew up between them, its bonds so strong that it even forced Meromic to fight against his countrymen during the last campaign against Vercingetorix. But at last the claims of his people proved too strong for him; he went back to them (too late for victory) and, after breathless adventures that lost him his right hand, returned to Rome, a freeman, thinking to live with Titus the rest of his days...