Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room, kept in touch with New York and Washington by long distance telephone, whispered important things to onetime Governor James Putnam Goodrich of Indiana, behaved in a manner which led many to suppose that he was putting over the Hoover nomination singlehanded, was preparing to direct the whole Hoover campaign. Such was not the case in 1928, but it may be in 1932. Last week, betting in the capital was 2-1 that this affable "whitecollar" politician from the South would become chairman of the Republican National Committee with the job of drivng the G.O.P. steamroller...
...claimed credit for first breaking the Solid South, because, with his help, Harding carried Tennessee in 1920. Under Secretary Hoover he served two years as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Firm friends they became, have remained to this day. Mr. Huston raised a half million dollars for the 1924 campaign, even more for 1928. In Tennessee he is, among other things, vice president of the Chattanooga Wheelbarrow...
...charge that I am a bigot and injected the religious issue in the last campaign, the unstinted faith and support of my many Catholic friends is the best reply. . . . The man most responsible for securing my appointment is Frank Doherty, of Los Angeles, a Catholic. When the cartoons were picturing me as a modern witchburner ... I called Frank (on the long distance telephone) and said 'surely you and Sarah do not believe these things of me?' With the friendly reassurance in his warm Irish voice, all my 'front' collapsed. I laughed as I paid the bill...
Last week marked what may well be a turning point in the campaign of Actors' Equity Association (actors' union) to enforce the Equity closed shop in Hollywood (TIME, July 8, Aug. 5). Six cinemactors, with Equity approval, met with delegates of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, hitherto haughtily oblivious of Equity demands. The actors: Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Edmund Lowe, Noah Beery, Louise Dresser, Ralph Forbes. Though the meetings were secret, observers were cheered by signs of arbitration after weeks of feverish, noisy invective...
Writers of advertising copy have handled almost every subject from toothpicks to war loans. Last week, however, there appeared in Chicago papers a unique campaign. Signed by the Chicago Employers' Association, it was a protest against the bombing of industrial establishments, particularly printing shops, by racketeers. Copy punch was provided by the offer of a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of persons bombing or damaging property of any printing concern that belonged to the Association and $1,000 reward for conviction of persons assaulting workers of print shops where strikes are in progress. The sales...