Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...partisan politics must have its fling. The important foreign posts are the plums that politicians grow to feed campaign fund contributors; until some political Burbank produces a new variety they will continue to be eaten as soon as they are ripe. America's international relations cannot reach the plane attained by other nations, as long as our foreign representatives are subject to change without notice. And the appeal for a higher quality in our public servants will not be answered as long as they have so doubtful an incentive to service as now exists...
Boston's election, which takes place today, will probably be decided by a margin of only a few thousand votes. The campaign has been bitter; each side has denounced the other with more than usual vigor; charges of incompetence and dishonesty have been numerous...
Were it not for two doubtful factors, it would be safe to predict a victory of a few thousand votes for Mr. Murphy, the Good Government Association Candidate for mayor. The women's vote and the campaign of Mr. Baxter, who is posing as a Republican make the outcome of the election uncertain. Otherwise the circumstances are about as they were in 1917, when Mayor Peters was chosen for the same office...
...concert cough should be added to the theatre cough, against which a campaign has begun in Paris, and the movement made world-wide. Spells of coughing which sweep audiences at plays and concerts are largely the result of suggestion, as almost any one can muster up a sufficient tickling of the throat during the winter season to justify some sort of noise. Physicians say that the greater part of such demonstrations can be suppressed without the slightest possibility of injury to any one. What is most needed is a conscious effort on the part of those tempted to follow...
Therefore the CRIMSON feels justified in urging all those members of the University, who are able to vote in the coming election, not only to cast their ballot for Mr. Murphy and for the platform of honest administration upon which he is running; but also to aid the campaign in his favor...