Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Waters Taft, sister-in-law of the Chief Justice of the U. S., announced herself a Smith lady, collected campaign money in Manhattan. Some people remarked that on Feb. 7, 1912, Mrs. Taft became a Roman Catholic. Some people remarked that lately Mr. Chief Justice Taft's ten-year-old prognostications about what Prohibition would lead to, were republished (TIME...
...view of the above circumstances, was the issuance last "week by Ivy Lee & Associates (spokesoffice for the House of Rockefeller) of an exposé and privately made translation of the treaty establishing The International Wine Bureau. "Such a plan," declared Ivy Lee & Associates, "constitutes in effect an anti-prohibition campaign, at least in so far as the sale of wine is concerned...
...electorate, disgruntled, has clearly been swept to the support of Sir Richard Squires by his clever "dollars and cents" campaign. It is difficult to imagine how George V can now avoid calling him to the Prime Ministry. True he was charged by the Crown Prosecutor in 1923 with malfeasance and accepting funds from private corporations; but a Newfoundland grand jury found "no bill," and the nasty charges blew over. Triumphantly last week Sir Richard counted up 28 seats for his party, against the Government's 12 in a Parliament of 40. Gallant, the man with the Hoover-tipped collar...
Recently carping, scandal-mongering Afghans have been conducting a whispering campaign against their Europeanized King Amanullah...
...thorough vindication of the Anti-Saloon League, which was bitterly attacked by Gov. Smith throughout the campaign...