Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Gordon Logan, carried the two shiny mahogany boxes in which reposed the solemn electoral certificates. Page McCarty is a squint-eyed little boy with a round face, a slight lisp, freckles, a cowlick, and good teeth for apple-biting. He served the Brown Derby during the campaign as personal messenger. He wept honestly when Nominee Hoover was elected. Alert, respectful, he is the Senate's favorite page. Page Logan is Senator Smoot's grandson...
...Classic's wife and brothers owned Louisiana cane sugar mills. The sugar duty came before the Tariff Commission. Commissioner Glassie voted against reduction of the sugar rate, tied the Commission, blocked action, helped Calvin Coolidge out of a 1924 campaign hole. In the Senate he was denounced...
Behind its failure is a story of petty Louisiana politics. Each bidder for the bridge franchise secured the services of a former Governor as counsel. When the New Orleans investment house of Watson-Williams won the bid, a retaliatory political campaign was begun for free ferries and a free bridge. Gov. Oramel Simpson campaigned for re-election on a free-bridge platform. So did Huey P. Long. Long won. Gov. Simpson, retiring, threw the free ferries into cut-throat competition with the private bridge, pending construction of a state bridge on which no tolls would be charged. Under Gov. Long...
...going to be any report, because there ain't going to be any commission." "We have had in this country, in my opinion, about all we could stand of the 'spokesman' idea. . . ." The Democratic National Committee announced last week that 30,000 copies of the campaign speeches of Alfred Emanuel Smith, in book form, had been distributed in exchange for $125,000 in contributions to the $1,500,000 Democratic deficit. Smallest contribution that will get a book...
...German piano tycoons stand clearly defeated, after a two-year battle with "sales resistance" in Germany itself. The offensive began in 1926. Only 45,000 pianos had been sold to Germans in 1926, as against 60,000 in other years. The tycoons were scared. Therefore they organized an "American Campaign" of high-pressure salesmanship, something unprecedented in the Reich. Salesmen rambled through the countryside with trucks full of pianos, selling and delivering on the spot, selling on credit, shouting, pleading, browbeating...