Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaker Longworth, Under-Secretary Ogden Mills and many another had been saying and repeating what a dreadful thing it would be for the Democrats to obtain power, because they would lower the tariff. The tariff, thanks to Republican persistence, was beginning to loom with Prosperity as one of the campaign issues. National Chairman Work (Republican) drew National Chairman Raskob (Democrat) into a public tariff debate, in the course of which Mr. Raskob promised to resign if it could be shown that Nominee Smith did not favor a protective tariff. That put it up to Nominee Smith, who was already very...
...said Nominee Smith, "the object of linking prosperity to the tariff is, first to scare off businessmen and scare off the wage earners; but there is another? campaign contributions have, to come...
Four years ago, in the father's presidential campaign, both LaFollette sons were on the touring train. Observant people noticed then that there was "mo; of the old man" in Brother Phil than in Brother Bob. It was in his longer, square-cut face; Brother Bob's face is chubby-round, more like that of his stateswomanly mother, Belle Case LaFollette. It was in his voice, a sharper, stronger, more whip- cracking voice than Brother Bob's. It was in his bodily movements ? quick, alert, crisp; Sculptor Jo Davidson, troubled about the hands of his statue...
...Wisconsin next fortnight will be memorable. Walter Jodok Kohler, welfare-working plumbing man, will probably be elected Governor. Young Bob will almost certainly be re-elected Senator. There will be fights all down the line for other offices, the bitterness of which is daily being transmitted to the Presidential campaign in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas and Nebraska, where LaFollettism's determined foster-father, Senator George William Norris, was last week preparing an "important announcement" for his coming national radio hookup. Afterwards...
...thousand Liberal Delegates cheered these extravagant phrases, mostly for three reasons. First, a Parliamentary election draws nigh, and the Liberals, with only 41 seats in Parliament, must campaign with desperate zeal against Conservatives ("Tories") who hold 412 seats, and the Labor contingent of 157. Second, the death of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith has left David Lloyd George supreme within the Liberal Party, so that even those who dislike his theatric methods hail him as the "Man of Victory." Lastly, the kinetic personality of Orator Lloyd George nearly always sweeps his auditors off their feet. Indeed he swept...