Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the campaign, certain newspapers achieved certain types of fame...
...York World, arch-Democratic, was so close to the Happy Warrior that it was accused of telling him what to say and how to run his campaign...
Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, both outspokenly Wet, under the same ownership, supported Hoover and Smith, respectively. But the Chicago Tribune sensationally denounced the Ku Klux Klan and the Anti-Saloon League as "twin calamities" in the Hoover campaign...
...Fraternal Interpretation of the World's Current Events, achieved more fame than it ever had before and, in percentage, it won more circulation and showed a greater increase in gross revenue than any other U. S. publication. From the publisher's standpoint, it won the campaign. "Fraternal" means that The Fellowship Forum is the organ of the Ku Klux Klan and all those who believe that the Pope and Al Smith want to hang 100% Protestant-American babies from the trees on the White House lawn. The Fellowship Forum boasts that its "million readers are a unit against...
Regularly during the campaign, The Fellowship Forum devoted eight out of its ten pages to violent, blatant and inaccurate attacks on Al Smith, the Pope and rum -by story, headline, editorial, cartoon and readers' forum. The doings and speeches of Mrs. Willebrandt, Rev. John Roach Straton, Senator Heflin and many a minor bigot were faithfully reported. The technique in handling campaign trends was to ballyhoo a Hoover landslide: for example, "Smith to be Most Badly Defeated Candidate Ever Running for Presidency." Then there was standard stuff: "Drunk Negro Boosting Smith," "Kissing Pope's Ring Insult to Flag," "Tirades...