Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrived there with a barrel of potatoes an his total assets, yet in that time he has built up the largest food business in the city. He discussed polities in his advertisements of cheaper onlong. If this sounds more like a musical comedy plot than an actual occurrence, his campaign methods will seem like pure farce. No one but his wife aided him in his campaign, his advertisements as a vegetable dealer were the only means by which he acquainted the citizens of his existence: a few days before the election he began holding meetings to which only women were...
...Corning is an officer of a railway and lighting company at Bangor, and has long been prominent in University affairs. During the war he was connected with the New England Division of the Red Cross and lived in Brookline, and later he had charge of the University Endowment Fund campaign in Maine...
...Robert F. Duncan '12, of Boston, who as secretary of the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee took a leading part in the endowment campaign, has been chosen vice-president of the Federation, while Mr. Francis A. Harding '09, of Boston, is to be secretary and Mr. Richard B. Wigglesworth '12, of Milton, treasurer...
...some undergraduates feel they have been treated unkindly by the H. A. A.; yet even they will admit that nothing can be done now, that admittance to the Stadium will at least give them a chance to join the battle against the Elis; and that with a week's campaign to beat Yale before us, all discussion of the ticket allotment should be withheld. After the game the problem may be tackled with a view to making impossible next year what has apparently been unavoidable this fall...
...battle in the World War. In the battle the private soldier knew little of the progress of the fight, but his faith in headquarters kept up his morale. "In the battle of life," said Dean Brown, "each of us is like the soldier; we cannot tell how the campaign against evil is going, but we have faith in headquarters which enables us to keep up our morale...