Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Mr. Huxman's nomination and during the campaign, Mr. William Allen White had the following to say in his Emporia (Kans.) Gazette: "Since the beginning of the State men like Walter Huxman have been shining lights and dependable leaders in this commonwealth. They have rarely won official distinction. In the sixties and seventies and eighties they were called 'the silk-stocking democrats,' men of education, of talent, of character, of vision." I doubt if you would call that the description of a second-string politician...
Your statement that Mr. Huxman was promised that the campaign would cost him nothing and that "afterward he would be given a job in Washington with a better salary than . . . $5,000 a year," is absolutely without foundation...
Your observation that Mr. Huxman was disappointed in his success is not inaccurate. He was naturally interested in the success of the campaign but the main reason was to justify the judgment of his friends and not to further his own personal ambitions. If ever there was an instance where the office sought the man, this...
...intensive campaign for the collection of old clothes, text books, and magazines will get under way Monday morning when Phillips Brooks House will commence its annual fall drive in all departments of the University...
...world into which fate had thrust her, she became the purveyor of calculated glamour, icy and generous by turns, distant, temperamental, mysterious. Part of this was the result of coaching by von Sternberg, part of it the changes in her own ego wrought by the amazing publicity campaign organized for her by Paramount. Before Morocco, her next picture, was released Hollywood gazed astonished at a series of billboards in which Dietrich and her limbs were formally presented to the U. S. Writers, columnists created for von Sternberg's star the sobriquet he had envisaged, "Legs" Dietrich...