Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maryland that ardent letter-writer, Senator Ovington E. Weller, Republican, was defeated by Representative Millard E. Tydings, Democrat, who rode to victory on the wave of Wet-and-popular Governor Ritchie. Mr. Weller's campaign philosophy was that every voter would like to have a cheery letter from a U. S. Senator. He congratulated mothers on the birth of babies; he flattered fathers who had become outstanding figures in their communities. Even Governor Ritchie's mother and his private secretary, and Senator-elect Tydings had their backs slapped by Senator Weller's "personal" letters. These must have...
...Senator Ralph H. Cameron of Arizona, Republican, was twice pained last week. His re-election hopes were blasted by Representative Carl T. Hayden, Democrat. His plea for an investigation of the Democrats' campaign expenditures turned around and smote him. The publisher of the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier testified‡ that Senator Cameron's secretary had asked him: "How much will you take for your newspaper for about 30 days...
...Senator Butler. Governor Fuller's opponent, William A. Gaston, potent lawyer-banker-businessman, has a wife who aids him. She wrote and, at her own expense, advertised the following letter on the day before election: "This is my last chance to do something for my husband in his campaign. . . I am proud of him. . . . It would take something far different from the Governorship of Massachusetts to make my husband forget that he is a gentleman and the son of a distinguished Governor of our Commonwealth...
...Theodore Roosevelt should appear suddenly in America today and doing what he did from 1904 to 1912 the various defense societies, security leagues, minute men of the Republic, and 100% Americans would start a whispering campaign that his real name was Fedor Roosevisky, and that he was sent here as an agent of the Bolsheviki...
...mighty. From that day began in earnest the struggle for sea power which placed Japan at the Washington Conference (1921) on a 3 5-5† basis ± with the U. S. and Britain (see p. 11). Last week the Japanese Minister of Marine, Admiral Takeshi Takarabe, launched a campaign to secure, an additional expenditure next year of $60,000,000 on the Japanese fleet...