Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the clamorous claims of the U.S. drys, consolidated, President Hoover last week grew fretful. Through the press, anonymously he sent forth word that no spectacular or drastic steps would be taken in his law enforcement campaign. He proposed to proceed sanely, to instill in people a respect for all law by education and moral suasion. He sought to avoid specialization on the prohibition law. Wet observers credited him with a shrewd and nimble sidestep. Most embarrassed was Major Edwin B. Hesse of the Washington, D. C., police force, who, with impressive fanfare, had just...
Spring has brought to Col. Grant other problems. Spring makes the sap rise in human beings as well as in cherry trees and Col. Grant is the sworn foe of human sappiness in Washington's public parks. His was the campaign last year against "spooning, necking and petting" by night in automobiles along the Speedway and through Rock Creek Park. Now that the cherry trees are coming out, the motives of parking motorists may soon again disturb the peace of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital...
...most astounding application of these principles was the complete reversal of the Allied plan of campaign in 1918, when Ferdinand Foch was given supreme command as Generalissimo. So irresistible seemed the German advance in those black days that the Allies were preparing to abandon Paris...
...follow up his advantage, Mr. Lloyd George-who won the election of 1918 by promising to "Hang the Kaiser"-placed on sale at sixpence (12?) a pamphlet called We Can Conquer Unemployment! Soon he jubilantly announced that "the first edition has sold out six times over!" In this palpable campaign broadside, shrewdly sold instead of given away, Mr. Lloyd George proposes to employ nearly 600,000 workers, "many within three months" on road building, house construction, telephone installation, "electrical developments," land drainage, reforestation, canal digging, and "in meeting the huge demand for British goods" which -the sixpence pamphlet confidently predicts...
...story itself is equally divided between fact and fable. That part of it which has historic basis deals with the young monarch's campaign against Darius and the Persians. To this the playwright had added a faintly Freudian obsession on Alexander's part for Helen of Troy, and fulfillment in the arms of Darius's young and neglected wife. The two leading roles are well enough played by Henry Hull and A. E. Anson, who might have made a very fine play of it hadthe author everdecided what he wanted...