Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrong impression conveyed by your footnote on Senator Smoot, p. 12 (TIME, April 8). As a student of government, I have no special bias in favor of any party, nor am I any particular defender of Senator Smoot. I was, however, present at this meeting during the mayoralty campaign of 1927, at what was then the Metropolitan Opera House. This Republican mass meeting occurred near the close of a campaign notable chiefly for its utter lack of observance of the ordinary decencies of a campaign. Candidates were referred to as four-flushers, blatherskites, big-nothings, stuffed shirts, jelly-fishes...
...hours were required for the 71st Congress formally to get seated in the capitol last week and prepare itself for work. Called by President Hoover because Idaho's Senator Borah induced him during the presidential campaign to promise quick legislative action on farm relief and tariff revision, the session, an "extraordinary" one, was to prove a testing ground of the President's potency as a political leader...
...Miss Charlotte. S. Baker, now president of the Board of Trustees, onetime principal. Spence is deserting its old buildings to move into nine Georgian floors farther uptown-still just off Fifth Avenue. Money must be raised. Barnard's Dean Gildersleeve was called in to make (gratis) a stirring campaign speech and alumnae last week received a rousing, well-printed money-appeal. Needed is $1,000,000 and: "Naturally . . . there must be a few gifts of $25,000, $50,000, and $100,000 and many of $5,000 and upwards. . . . To enable the school's friends to make such...
...Gaston, renée. Said the Ladies' Home Journal for May: "Our patterns are not inspired by Paris, they are not adapted from. Paris; they are actually designed, created and shown in the salons of the French haute couture," Once upon a time-Wartime-the Journal conducted a campaign for U. S. styles by U. S. designers for U. S. women. Nothing came of it, however, and now the Journal publishes page upon page of lovely creatures tagged with French names, letterpressed in lyric strain. In the face of the Journal's scoop, its competitors professed...
...summoning his men Captain F. D. Sharp, polo coach, is starting practice early, for the first game does not come until May 18, when the Crimson team rides against the cadets at West Point. However with a good indoor record behind them the chances for a highly successful outdoor campaign look bright and therefore Coach Sharp is anxious to get his team in the best possible shape early. Furthermore there will be the job of filling the place of Captain F. A. Clark '29, who as crew captain will have to devote his entire time to that sport. Clark will...