Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great increase in the immigration of its natives to the United States. Since 1910, the number of Siamese in this country has increased almost two thousand percent (from eight to 154). King Rana VI is doing his best to stem the exodus by making home more attractive. In this campaign, physical uplift has not been neglected. For example, fifteen thousand converts mark the success of the recently inaugurated Boy Scout movement...
...dubious of the advisability of such a move. It yet remains to be seen whether the President will override their hesitancy and take the lead on his own initiative. The trend of Republican opinion seems definitely to be that domestic prosperity will be the determining factor in the 1924 campaign. With this in mind, the railroad problem should be the most important issue, the question of tariff and taxes would be best left untouched and the World Court would be a very dangerous issue to meddle with. Upon this the " best minds " of the Republican Party seem agreed...
While the "regular" Republicans were preparing a list of issues for the next campaign, Senator Borah, the leader of his own one-man bloc in the Senate, had something to say about the next election. Into a speech at Akron, Ohio, he ventured to inject two sentences-by a little rhetorical device dating back to the Roman Re- public-two sentences that caused no little stir in political circles. "I do not turn aside to discuss," said he with studied innocence, "third party movements. Such a movement is not impossible, not even improbable." This declaration he made in a speech...
...muckraking campaign being waged against the anthracite coal operators by the Hearst Press is every day becoming more bitter. Photographs, affidavits from miners and dealers and special reports by staff correspondents are being used as propaganda artillery in every edition of the New York American and the papers using its syndicate service...
...glancing over the athletic page of the morning paper, my eye stuck on the statement: "The Duke swished the agate into the draperies for the winning count." Is there any need to go on with your campaign for the emancipation of the language, as long as the reporters carry on the fight so gallantly under the existing catch-as-catch-can rules? COL. BYGAD...