Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Westinghouse starts 1929 with a well balanced advertising campaign in hundreds of publications. Never before has Westinghouse planned so broad, so extensive an effort to sell Westinghouse as a mammoth institution, as a company which does marvels with electricity, as a maker of electrical products of unequaled quality, as a leader of electrical industry-the industry which has made possible modern life...
...Presidential secretary. Ten years a Minnesota member of Congress, Mr. Newton will now leave the Capitol to serve as White House contact-man with the many scattered independent executive bureaus and commissions.* Big, burly, strong-voiced, he directed the Speakers' Bureau in Chicago for the Hoover campaign...
...this (for him) extraordinary remark, remained a mystery. Perhaps he wanted to let Senators McKellar, Couzens et al. know, in a delicate way, that the Secretary of the Treasury was still quite sure of himself. Or, perhaps again, he wanted to bolster the Federal Reserve Board's campaign against stock speculation loans. Or, perhaps a third time, there was a connection between the statement and the condition of U. S. Government bonds. The Treasury's quarterly financing of March 15 had been barely oversubscribed despite an interest rate of 4¾%. A $475,000,000-issue had brought...
...Drys, Consolidated, last week nominated the "Personification of Prohibition,"* Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. The Christian Herald opened her campaign under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA: MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT." Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the Christian Herald's editor, declared that "every prohibitionist in the U. S. . . . will experience disappointment and regret" if this "remarkable woman" is allowed to retire. He called her "the first figure in the whole field of law observance and law enforcement...
...covering of Palmer, Yale ace, was one of the main reasons for his team's victories over the Blue in the 1928 series. In the first game against the Elis this last season, he scored both the goals which spelled defeat for the New Haven team. During the campaign just ended, Giddens drove in a total of 18 tallies to lead the Harvard scoring parade...