Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement should have been made at this time. In the first place there have been rumors steadily gathering force and cogency in Washington to the effect that Mr. Harding was tired of his job, that his own health and that of his wife precluded another long and strenuous campaign, that harassed by the extremists of the Old Guard on the one hand and the insurgent LaFollette group on the other, he preferred to have the Republican Party ship steered by other hands. These rumors are automatically put at rest by the explicit announcement that he will follow tradition...
Naturally, the appearance of Mr. Harding's hat in the ring was the signal for the Democrats to put a disparaging interpretation upon it. The Democratic National Committee began at once to cast about for the weakest and most plausible spot through which to thrust an opening campaign wedge. They found it in the remarks of Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, considered by political experts to be the spokesman of the Eastern Republicans, and certainly one of the three highest figures in the Republican party organization...
Despite the President's strong stand against the Tuchuns, or war lords, they continue to make preparations for a campaign against Dr. Sun Yat-Sen in the South...
...Pompon, ex-dancer, the young man who has been vainly assaulting Gustave's wife's marital stability pretends to be Rosette's ex-dancing partner. By dint of robust blackmail, he persuades the perturbed husband to take him into his home as secretary, thus facilitating his campaign. The resultant complications are judiciously distributed through two acts...
...report of President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Leland Stanford University describes the addition of several important building units to the university, including the Stanford Union, the Stanford School of Nursing, residence halls for men, dining hall in process of construction and a "basketball pavilion." The endowment campaign of 1922 was successful and the income from the first million is to be used for salaries. The Carnegie Corporation has founded at Stanford a Food Research Institute which is operating as an active part of the university...