Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Proskauer of the New York Supreme Courtis a tall, scholarly-looking, soft-spoken Jew, originally from Mobile. He plays golf, goes to the opera, wears a cropped mustache. The criticism against his indulging in politics during a judicial career is four years old. He has assisted every Smith campaign since he received his Smith appointment. Astute, suave, he strives especially to dignify and represent the "New Tammany...
...feel like splurging the Republican candidate with the responsibility for the whispering, bigoted campaign that is carried on in contradiction to the Declaration of Independence, but there are men in this country who would refuse to be President if they got it with that kind of a vote...
...Leonardtown, Md., sarcastic Senator Caraway of Arkansas twitted Senator Borah about his campaign, earlier this year, to "purge" the G. O. P. of Oilman Sinclair's contributions...
Superintendent F. Scott McBride's explanation was simple: "For the first time Prohibition has been made an issue in a Presidential campaign...
...Columbus, Ohio, the mother chapter of the Anti-Saloon League published in The American Issue, its official organ, an editorial entitled "America's Strangest Political Campaign." Nominee Smith was described as representing "the sporty, jazz and liberal element of our population." The editorial also said: "If you believe in Anglo-Saxon Protestant domination. . . . you will vote for Hoover rather than Smith. . . . The Anglo-Saxon Protestants, working through both parties, have dominated America and made it what it is today-a world leader...