Word: campaigned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emporia, Editor White expostulated : "If he can cite the date and place where I declared that any capon ever sat on eggs I will give the Democratic Campaign Committee a thousand dollars. Poor as I am at arithmetic I can figure there is some thing biologically wrong about a capon sitting on eggs...
...requires less brains to run a campaign on personalities," boomed one of the largest personalities in the campaign...
...stand no chance of election this year, but he would probably be politically dead, especially to himself. What the Roosevelt nomination meant, to the Brown Derby, how the local "situation" stood, was bound to become as familiar to the national electorate as many a broader phase of the national campaign. It was this...
...England's first lady of Parliament. Her sister, Irene Langhorne (Mrs. Charles Dana) Gibson, has been striving to reinstate the Democracy through the instrumentality of the Brown Derby, bold modern symbol of the Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years in U. S. history?as her astute sister had doubtless planned she should. There were no speech-makings, no obvious handshakings, yet the overtone was unmistakable?Lady Astor home for a visit while her sister worked...
Cartoons usually go to the other extreme. Their use is chiefly destructive, to ridicule and depreciate the other side's men and issues. The national campaign of 1928 has been notably a campaign of cartoons for two reasons: The issues are sharp and bitter; and both sides have ruled out what Nominee Smith called "baloney" pictures ?posed photographs of the Nominees digging on farms, milking cows, kissing babies...