Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Osawatomie, Kansas, U. S. history has on several occasions been made.- Last week in Osawatomie, U. S. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri made a speech on which he informally opened his campaign for the Democratic-Presidential nomination. Under a blue and windy sky the farmers who had come to town for the annual Farmers' Union munched hot dogs or cones and stood on their feet with their hands in their pockets. Their wives, many with yowling babies in arm, soon strolled away from the platform. The voice of Mr. Reed sounded incongruously vehement in the placid, warm afternoon...
Other points noted: Tourists receive preferential treatment; migration of Mexican workers to the U. S. is not grave, most of them returning to Mexico at the termination of their labors; the electoral campaign had so far been conducted in an orderly manner, the Government observing a strictly neutral attitude. Then he came to international relations...
Among the campaign utterances of Mayor Thompson had been a promise to oust "that stool pigeon of King George," Superintendent McAndrew. The color of the epithet was derived entirely from the Thompson campaign scheme. He and his friends were out to startle the electorate with an unrivaled display of Americanism, much as a vulgar hostess will try to startle society with her flamboyant Persian or Turkish or Hawaiian ball. It would be easy to burlesque Superintendent McAndrew as a British "spy," an under cover agent for Buckingham Palace-even though he was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan...
...meeting of the school board, Mr. McAndrew rehearsed his teacher-clerk testimony and his conception of his duty so clearly, that the ouster vote was tied at 5 to 5. President Coath was obliged to perform a clumsy coup de grace with his deciding vote to make the Thompson campaign promise seem to come true...
...Campaign. All parties immediately set their election machinery in motion. All, except the Government party, which can now bank on liberal support from the alarmed business community, were short of money, principally on account of a general election having recently been held (TIME, June...