Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your treatment of the Democratic side of the present political campaign is to my mind grossly unfair. All Democratic leaders are referred to as bosses, and that elevated and altruistic gentleman, William S. Vare, is respectfully designated Senator...
...failed me, it is ten or fifteen years since the Rev. William ("Billy") Sunday, the famous evangelist, has been in New York. Now I think this would be a fine time for him to come to New York, because of the prohibition raids on "night clubs" and the presidential campaign. Can it be that he is afraid to come to New York, as I have heard? I do not like to think that "Billy" Sunday would be afraid to meet the devil in his stamping-ground, New York, and yet it has been so long since he has been here...
Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota, repining Republican, said: "I cannot bring myself to support actively Secretary Hoover or his policies with regard to agriculture. On the other hand I cannot support Smith. I am a Republican still, although I expect to be very still in this campaign...
...duty of Ulysses Simpson Grant III (grandson) to walk observantly through the greenery of forest and pasture out of which the great parks of Washington, D. C., are carved. Last week he, director of public parks, started a vigorous campaign against "spooning, necking and petting, noticeably prevalent in darkened automobiles at night in the parks." He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children...
...this passionate devotion for meticulous ceremony Biographer Forester attributes Louis le Grand's two great failures. Excellently planned, the military campaign against William of Orange, and the diplomatic war for the Spanish succession, were both on the verge of sensational success, when Louis stopped to evolve an elaborate finish, instead of clinching matters offhand...