Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clyde A. Walb, Klannish henchman of Candidate Watson's 1926 campaign for the Senate, was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary for four years for conspiracy to violate the U. S. banking laws...
...Believing his delegate-strength was even greater than impartial experts said, anticipating a crucial victory in California's primary on May Day, Candidate Smith inspected his campaign headquarters at the Hotel Biltmore, Manhattan, and approved the selection of George R. Van Namee as his pre-convention manager. Mr. Van Namee, a slightly bald, wholly businesslike,-most amiable Cornell graduate (Class of 1901), used to be Governor Smith's secretary. Before that, when Smith was Democratic leader and Speaker of the New York Assembly, Mr. Van Namee was his familiar and chief clerk. In 1920 and again...
...University coaching corps for the 1928 football campaign was announced yesterday by W. J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, on the advice of Head Coach Arnold Horween...
...None of this may be true, but the belief that it is true exists among large numbers of the most influential men who will have to be consulted in rounding up delegates at Kansas City and in collecting campaign funds afterwards. Among the politicians themselves there is in addition a belief that Mr. Hoover's personal prestige is not of a kind which would stand up well in competition with the intimate personal quality of Gov. Smith's popularity. Mr. Hoover's virtues suggest the clean precision of the scientific man. They are abstract and intellectualized...
...same morning as the World's editorial, the New York Herald Tribune, outstanding G. O. P. organ in the East, stoutly stated in its leading editorial: "The Hoover campaign continues to make steady progress over a wide territory...