Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parallel vagueness about the Equalization Fee, which he avoided naming by name in his farm relief speech at Omaha. Finally, resorting to Hearstlike capital letters, they said: "Throughout this campaign the Scripps-Howard newspapers have believed WITH Hoover some of the time. We have believed IN him all of the time. . . . What the World's candidate says as to power ? or any other subject ? is right per se and must be accepted by the World as holy writ...
DEMOCRATS Items Notable among Brown Derby campaign items of the week were the following: Arthur Smith Jr., 30-month-old grandchild, lifted up his small, lisping voice and sang "The Sidewalks of New York" for a "talkie" film at Albany. With Jefferson, the Great Dane, nearby, he was not afraid. Nor was it "baloney" to him. He sang earnestly, correctly, to the end. George J. Anderson, president of the Consolidated Coal Co. (Rockefeller, "largest U. S. producers of soft coal,") declared for Smith and said: "The present administration has not disguised its hostility to West Virginia's basic interest...
...result of numerous considerations, mainly strategic and topographical. The sudden volte-face here of the Hudson was seized upon by Revolutionary military leaders as the logical place to hinder hostile passage of the river; and the long, tragic interlude of Arnold and Andre, with the failure of the British campaign treacherously supported by them, is interwoven with the importance of this region in the war. The close of the Revolution brought recommendations for the continuance of an army training post here; a Military Academy had been suggested as early as 1776, and now, after the endless delays that infected legislation...
...from tackle to tackle, has not received a severe test so far this season and its showing Saturday will be important, not only as far as the result of the game with the West Pointers is concerned, but also as it may affect the outcome of the entire fall campaign...
Among the other collections of an infancy spent in a very politically-minded family, the Vagabond recalls distinctly one occasion some presidential campaigns ago when his father, growing irate against a stubborn uncle, overwhelmed the claims of the latter for his candidate with the words "But he doesn't respect the Constitution!" Between his wanderings from lecture hall to lecture hall the Vagabond has picked up enough knowledge about the current campaign to assure him that there is still no more destructive charge Same of the factors that influenced the birth of this criterion of Americanism will be discussed...