Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forecast yet anything like what lines the campaign will take. . . . There'll be less spellbinding, less soap-box stuff. . . . All the old issues have fallen down. Prohibition is out of the way, thank heavens. Tariff has simmered down to a compromise. . . . States' rights-the Republicans are trying to steal our clothes on that issue...
...weakness of the present Republican management has been its disposition to shoot off all their fireworks now, instead of waiting for the campaign. That reminds me of the boy who gets so eager that he just has to buy a giant firecracker three days before the Fourth of July, and then on the night of the third he simply can't stand it any longer and gets up and fires...
...York Times's Charles A. Selden: "A general election before Christmas, probably at the end of next month. . . . The election campaign will consist of maneuvering to win those 11,000,000 voters who went on record this year in the peace ballot referendum in favor of sup porting the League of Nations. Incident ally . . . 6,000,000 voted for military sanctions. . . . There is no other question of British politics, domestic or foreign, on which the will of the people is so definitely known by the politicians. The number of these Britons who have declared for the League exceeds...
...anecdotes are often capped by His Excellency with the one about the Scottish soldier from the village of Rothie-murchus who was asked where he was wounded during General Sir Stanley Maude's campaign in Irak. "I was wounded," he replied, "about a mile on the Rothiemurchus side of Baghdad...
Unsolved Problem. Where Canadians stand in the Empire and their attitude toward King George & Queen Mary as symbolized in the Dominion by Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir may be shrewdly guessed from a major pronouncement during the campaign by Premier Bennett. Though pro-English, a personal friend of the King, and with the warmest feelings for the Mother Country and her aristocracy, Mr. Bennett on the stump felt obliged to say to Canadians: "The Motherland is still vigorous and powerful, but it is no longer the directive machine of our national life. . . . Relationship between Canada and Great Britain still constitutes an unsolved...