Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democrats announced that Robert Tyre Jones Jr., four-time amateur golf champion of the U. S., twice open champion of the U. S., three-time Southern champion, twice open champion of Britain, etc. etc., would campaign for Nominee Smith...
William Allen White returned on the President Harding, prepared to relieve himself of another "whoop" on the presidential campaign...
Across the Hippodrome stretched a 100-foot banner-slogan: Stanley for Stability! Excited delegates knew that Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was about to speak and officially open the national campaign. When it seemed that beloved Stanley Baldwin was going to be just a bit late, as usual, the Conference vented high spirits by singing to an old, rollicking tune a new and most significant campaign song...
...doggerel line about stopping the "Inky pinky . . . Socialists' dope" proved to be almost the theme of Prime Minister Baldwin's platform speech. Said he: "The great campaign issue is once more, as it was in 1924, the challenge of Socialism against constitutionalism and against British individualism. On that issue the way that the People of Great Britain will vote cannot be doubted...
...Lloyd George, Mr. Baldwin said grimly: "One piece of campaign literature we are going to use will be the writings of Mr. Lloyd George in the foreign press at a time when our country was struggling and in difficulties." This referred to the Welshman's syndicated feature articles to William Randolph Hearst on the subject of the "British General Strike" (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926). Conservatives hope to tag Syndicator Lloyd George with the political high crime of having been in sympathy with the strikers...