Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twofold were Herbert Hoover's promises to U. S. farmers in the 1928 campaign. One was relief by means of a new Federal agency to assist in crop marketing. The other was relief by means of increased tariff rates on agricultural commodities, to protect the U. S. husbandman from foreign competition, to put him on a parity with U. S. industry...
From Pennsylvania had come the loudest demands for added protection for industry. Joseph R. Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association and G. O. P. campaign cash-collector extraordinary, had been in the forefront of an old-style drive for higher rates (TIME, March 25). He had secured duties on brick and cement, had permanently pegged pig iron at $1.12½ per ton. But he still sounded dissatisfied when he said: "The few raises fall short of meeting the requirements ... of Pennsylvania's industries along lines indicated in the Republican platform adopted at Kansas City." He intimated that provisions...
...have heard him in Paris, or on nights when he did not have a cold during his short engagement this spring in Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic (TIME, March 4). He had been built into a cinema celebrity with the most expensive and intense advertising campaign ever invested in a foreign actor. In this talkie he pulls a little boy out of a French suicide-river so that he can sing to him. He is poor, penniless, a junkman, but he tells the little boy he is an antiquarian. That makes the audience cry. The little boy's mother...
...Pharmacy and Chemistry in striking from its list of "new and nonofficial remedies" a number of ergot preparations (important to women) believed to contain "putrefactive amines." Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, Dean of Columbia University's College of Pharmacy, hailed this action as a step forward in his campaign against impure ergot, which he declares is now entering the U. S. from Russia and Poland (TIME, April 15). A scientist, Dr. Rusby resented and denounced any suggestion that his attack on Russian and Polish ergot might arise from any other cause than his wish to see only the purest ergot...
...time seemed opportune for making a determined effort to secure the funds necessary for building and endowing an entirely new plant for chemistry. Since two other departments of the University were sorely in need of better facilities for further development, it was deemed best to make a combined campaign to meet the requirements of all three departments...