Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House horses which nobody rode were quartered in the Army quartermaster stables at 19th Street and Virginia Avenue, N. W. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge, in a plain business suit and panama hat, once mounted a black charger named General, cantered through Potomac Park, was duly photographed for the campaign. Never again did he use a live horse...
President Hoover refused to become entangled in the legislative details of a farm relief bill. He pointed to his St. Louis campaign speech for a general outline of his wishes, whereupon the Senate committee had it solemnly read into its hearings...
...Clyde M. Reed was his secretary. Now Mr. Reed is Governor of Kansas. Last week he announced that he would appoint Mr. Allen to the Kansas seat in the U. S. Senate, vacated by Vice- President Curtis. Once publisher of the Wichita Beacon, Mr. Allen, now 60, directed Hoover campaign publicity...
...Stratton is well known as one of the country's leading fundamentalists and has been in the public eye frequently During the late presidential campaign he challenged Ex-Governor Smith to a debate on the question of whether a Catholic was disqualified for the presidency...
...later years, as head of a great railroad, Mr. Rea was not only rail tycoon but public figure as well. Thus many a person knew that he belonged to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, that he supported Alfred Smith in the late campaign. He was famed, too, as a woodchopper and as a collector of English antique silver. Doubtless many of the thousands who this week passed through Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station realized that in it Samuel Rea has an enduring and a fitting memorial...