Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arguments of a post-election whispering campaign have at length become so loud that a mere "Hush!" from those called big-wigs is not enough to silence the speakers. Whatever that hard-gained Smith majority in the Bay State may have signified politically, it gave Governor Fuller, long the Republican Party's second prize publicity artist, a chance to step out to a sizeable lead over his once superior opponent, the vociferous Mr. Goodwin. Working on the sufficient assumption that an officer soon to be emeritus is safe from slings and arrows, the Governor has been chuckling pretty constantly...
After Secretary of Commerce Hoover was nominated by the G. O. P. and Secretary of the Interior Work resigned to manage the campaign, President Coolidge looked around for a new Secretary of the Interior and chose Lawyer West...
...strangest pieces of mail which Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the U. S. Vice-President-Reject, has ever received, was a letter which he gleefully showed to colleagues last week. The letter warmly, sincerely, personally thanked Mr. Robinson for "the cordial support you gave me in the campaign." It was signed by Charles Curtis, the Vice-President-Elect. Senator Curtis laughed as hard as anyone. No one in the Senate needed to be told how it is that such slips occur when one answers each & every one of one's congratulaters after an election by warm, sincere, personal form-letters...
Last week, the horseplay had chiefly to do with the late election. There was a parody of Herbert Hoover's campaign eulogy of the U. S. home: 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Elected. Dr. James Harvey Robinson (The Mind in the Making), of Manhattan; to be President of the American Historical Association. A campaign was announced to raise $1,000,000 for historical research, the money to be got under the direction...