Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hayes and Wheeler and Reform in the Faculty, Honesty in Policies and Cribs in Examinations," was the battle cry of the 1876 Republicans. From that campaign came the College's only original campaign poem...
...policy. "Three cheers" for Washington, it said, and "three more" for John Adams, 1755, but as for Republican-Democrat Tom Jefferson, "May he exercise his elegant literary talents for the benefit of the world in some retreat, secure from the troubles and dangers of political life." When his campaign brought Jefferson to Harvard he was booed, and the College showed that it hugged warmly the Federalist philosophy of New England...
...Tremont Temple, Boston, with Edward Everett Hale, 1839, as chairman and ex-Governors George Robinson and John Long, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, '71, as speakers. Three days later a three-gun salute sparked the big march for Harrison. But as for the Democrats, what was apparently their only campaign activity was listed by the CRIMSON as follows: "G. S. Howe '89 speaks tonight at a democratic (sic) rally in Georgetown...
...Spring of 1920, the election would have gone, eight years prematurely, to Herbert Hoover. When a smoke-filled room nominated Harding for the job that summer, the College got right in step, giving the Great Gamaliel the nod over Gov. Cox by 270 votes. But the Democratic campaign at College featured a major address by Cox in the Union and a boost from President Eliot. These two factors now made the Democrats much stronger at Harvard than at other Eastern schools...
Soap opera has entered a gubernatorial campaign for the first time. Paul A. Dever, Governor Robert F. Bradford's opponent in the Massachusetts fight, has sent sirupy attacks by radio housewives out on the air waves during the past few weeks in technology's latest contribution to American politics. The ladies have chatted mainly about the high cost of living, criticizing Governor Bradford for allowing price hikes on 400 necessities of life. On billboards and in Dever's own oratory, prices have been the central issue. But the Governor is against the veteran," one lady said recently. She went...