Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itch to play politics overcame him again in 1924 and he ably commanded the Coolidge western campaign. In 1928 he looked around for another Presidential winner. He looked at General Dawes and looked away. He looked at Secretary Hoover, saw his popular appeal, pitied his political inexperience. Again he took command, this time of the Hoover preconvention campaign, doing a miraculous job of amalgamating the heterogeneous Hoover following. After the nomination, Mr. Hoover begged him to stay on as Western manager. Reluctantly he did. There was less begging, less reluctance, to get Mr. Good into the Hoover Cabinet...
Early in 1927 Mr. Hoover, casting an anxious eye over the prospective political battleground, beheld Mr. Brown wasting his talents on the Ohio air. He called him to Washington officially as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, unofficially as a campaign manager. Mr. Brown put his candidate in the Ohio presidential primaries, where defeat would have been certain had not Death scratched his rival, Senator Frank B. Willis...
...Never was there such an opportunity as the city presented for dances and cultivating the society of nice, and what Peter found intelligent girls. From then on he rose late, read all the newspapers and current magazines to be in the swim of conversation, and trained himself for the campaign. Here was the thing, that was lasting; if you made scores of friends, they would be with you all your life and you would have obtained something durable from college...
President Van Buren spent $27,000 on new decorations. Congress fumed about "Caesar's palace" and "Asiatic Mansion." In consequence Harrison won the "Log Cabin" campaign...
...paper should also increase. Careless school children and flighty stenographers would spoil countless sheets headed January 29 or August 30. Busy executives would dictate letters beginning, "Yours of the 30th instant received and contents noted." Thus paper men saw paper-profits. One of the convention delegates suggested as a campaign song for the new movement, "Will you love me in December...