Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearings brought into this room 1,200 witnesses in 45 days who gave 11,000 printed pages of evidence on changing the 1922 Tariff Act. Now, preparatory to the special session of Congress, the majority members of this committee were writing an administration bill which would fulfill the Hoover campaign promises. The President wanted tariff revision limited to agricultural products and a few special but unnamed commodities. These G. O. P. committeemen were inclined to give him what he wanted. But outside the locked door, potent U. S. manufacturers ululated demands that all duty rates be promptly and emphatically raised...
Democratic opposition to a G. O. P. tariff was still fluid. Alfred Emanuel Smith, in the campaign, had declared for a "compensatory tariff," to which many a Democratic Congressman heedlessly pledged himself. Tennessee's Democratic Cordell Hull of the Ways & Means Committee alone had raised a John-The-Baptist cry against Republican tariff plans. Hardly a Democratic Congressman but had some pampered local industry he would like to see "protected," ranging from women's shoes in Brooklyn to cane sugar in Louisiana...
...facts and figures" campaign speech in Philadelphia caused a good Republican audience, provoked by his schoolmarm manner, to boo Senator Smoot...
...week, against the scheduled date of the British General Election, May 30. They pointed out that from May 21 clear up through Election Day the minds of pious Scots will or ought to be engrossed in following the proceedings of the annual assembly of the National Church of Scotland. Campaign speeches at such a time could scarcely please God, reasoned the Scottish divines, and in both Edinburgh and Glasgow devout headline writers wrote...
Reading, Rothermere & Beaverbrook. A Jew who became Lord Chief Justice of England, then Viceroy of India, and finally Marquess of Reading is famed Rufus Daniel Isaacs. Last week he in- troduced David Lloyd George, fiery leader of the Liberal Party, to a campaign audience of 10,000 which jammed famed Albert Hall. A system of land wires (not radio) would carry the bandy little Welsh-man's speech to 14 other voter rallies throughout England, Scotland and Wales. In stage boxes on opposite sides of the proscenium sat, dramatically, the great lords of the British press, Viscount Roth- ermere...