Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indeed, is the lot of the present-day politician. His campaign is supervised, albeit not very carefully, from start to finish; his funds are investigated, and then re-investigated; even when he has been elected he may find the door of his office rudely slammed in his face. But this last independence of the candidate has never been tampered with; his privilege of saying anything or nothing has always stood; and if he has recently preferred to say nothing, who has there been to forbid him? Even this right is at last being undermined; and, although no one troubles himself...
...National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, before opening a campaign to dissuade home-builders from stucco and brick, invited the public to invent a rallying-cry. Last fortnight first prize ($5,000) went to one James E. Noble Jr. of Sanitorium, Miss., for his lofty "Certified by Centuries of Service." Tersely quieting the fears of those who worry about deforestation, the slogan, "Wood, Use It-Nature Renews It," won second prize ($2,000) for Mrs. Dora Davis Farrington of Interlaken, N. J. Less clever, by one word, a Mrs. Maud Burt of Marshalltown, Iowa, thought of "Use It-Nature Renews...
...conference of rice-growers and millers of the three principal rice-growing states (Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana), meeting last week in New Orleans. They talked about the need for advertising in order to market effectively their annual output of 6,500,000 barrels of rice; planned an aggressive campaign to make the nation rice-conscious. Last week they met again in Jennings and talked about the same...
...favorite punishment is to overturn a large jar of beans in a culprit's presence and then require the miserable wretch to pick them up bean by scattered bean. This proves so effective that she rarely has to resort to flogging. On the eve of a great military campaign, Purta, bored, jealous, at last makes herself attractive to Temugin, and accompanies him next day in the best mule litter, the one with springs...
...political authority of the eminent Baltimore Sun, the other by a Princeton professor, both books will be chiefly of lay interest. Both authors are well-informed, authoritive, and unbiased. Scholars will detect occasional minor flaws, but will be impressed with the shrewdness of interpretations given to party platforms, campaign pledges, election results...