Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Site. A political trade planted Washington on the Potomac mudflats. Thomas Jefferson gave Southern support to Alexander Hamilton's campaign to have the U. S. assume the full cost of the Revolution. In return, in 1790, Hamilton helped Jefferson pass legislation locating the new capital in the South on the Potomac River. President Washington picked the site?100 sq. mi. ceded by Maryland and Virginia to the U. S. at the head of tide water. He called the new Capital "The Federal City." Jefferson, Madison and the three commissioners chosen to lay out the city, referred to it from...
...protested. Senator Borah rebuked Senator Heflin for bigotry, only to have the Democratic leader, Robinson of Arkansas, who has more than once rebuked Senator Heflin similarly, retort: "The Senator [Borah] can now speak of religious liberty, but you never heard him make such an eloquent appeal during the campaign. Then he was as dumb as an oyster on the overshadowing issue...
...Campaign speeches are written to mean a lot of things to many men. Candidate Hoover's were no exception. Last week the more incongruous of his campaign sup porters arose in the Senate to decry what they called "inconsistencies" between the Hoover position on farm relief before the election and after...
TIME'S footnote said: "A 'facts and figures' campaign speech in Philadelphia caused a good Republican audience, provoked by his schoolmarm manner, to boo Senator Smoot...
...previous year. Moreover, an ignorant tradition led salmon-eaters to prefer Red to Pink. Investigators for the Associated Salmon Packers glumly heard many a housewife declare: "I buy it [cheap pink] only for my cat." Foregathered in solemn conclave, the packers decided to put on a national advertising campaign. They collected $200,000, gave it to advertising men who staged a national campaign hailing PINK salmon "The King of Food Fish," who also started recipe contests- each recipe to be accompanied by a label from a PINK salmon can. Sixty thousand housewives stopped feeding Pink salmon to their cats, sent...