Word: campaigned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's hockey campaign will be officially launched tonight when the Crimson sextet skates out on the Arena ice to tackle the Boston University Terriers in the opening game of the season. The contest is due to start at 8.15 o'clock...
...same primary onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper spent $1,804,979, onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, $187,029, vainly seeking the senatorial nomination. The Senate set a moral limit for campaign expenditures in 1922 when it seated Truman Hanly Newberry of Michigan, condemned his political use of $196,000 as excessive...
Assailed for championing "companionate marriage," ousted from office for "campaign irregularities," famed Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Denver was last week disbarred for "professional misconduct" by the Colorado State Supreme Court. While Denver Juvenile Court Judge- an office which he made nation-famed-he accepted a "gift" of some $40,000 from socialite Helen Elwood Stokes, in return helped her "as friend and counsellor" to break the will of her late husband, Hotelman W. E. D. Stokes. Said the disbarring judge: "By taking fees while judge, he was false to his oath both as a judicial officer and as an attorney...
...yellow-jacketed book, In the Reign of Rothstein, appeared. Rothstein-Mathematician of Crime was published serially in a New York daily. Throughout the autumnal mayoralty campaign, candidates aspiring to Mayor Walker's desk filled the newspapers with accusations that Tammany Hall was afraid to prosecute the Rothstein case because Tammany men were too intimately connected with Rothstein's world...
...interests, appears somewhat ironic. In August, Blue Ridge had announced a policy of exchanging its shares for shares of other corporations, had thus indirectly endorsed such quotations as 238 for U. S. Steel, 395 for General Electric, 349 for Detroit Edison. In September Shenandoah had announced an intensive selling campaign by which Shenandoah and Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. shares would be sold to small investors. Yet potent and prosperous appeared, last summer, both Blue Ridge and Shenandoah. Their securities and the securities in their portfolios* were rising harmoniously together. Back of them were the magic names of Harrison Williams, Sidney...