Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening Mr. Hoover spoke in St. Louis, President Coolidge sat near a White House radio. When the speech was finished, the President sent out for his secretary and dictated a long campaign telegram, concluding ". . . All the discussion has made more plain the wisdom of the plans you have proposed for solving our political, economic and social problems. You have shown your fitness to be President...
...Senator Norris, to whom water power was the dominant issue, there was only one course. Last week, from the same platform in Omaha where Nominee Smith was first introduced to the mid lands, he declared himself a Smith man and made the power trust a campaign monster...
William Evans, publisher of the Valley Vigilant, weekly newspaper of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was sentenced last week to three months in the county jail, fined $100. His offense: criminal libel of a County Commissioner during a political campaign. Libel convictions are rare...
...grandiose fortnight that ended for Charles Michael Schwab in Manhattan last week. He had sat, dined and posed with the country's other industrial tycoons (TIME, Oct 29). He gave $25,000 to the Republican national campaign fund. His Bethlehem Steel Corp. made its report for the third quarter of this year. (Its business and profits this year have run somewhat less than last. But production now is at 94% of capacity and is efficient. Directors again decided to pay no common dividends.) Lastly, happily and philosophically Tycoon Schwab presided over the yearly general meeting of the American Iron...
...battle for the governorship was the chief issue, last week, between the two factions. Clark is supporting Republican Wellington D. Rankin. Anaconda aids the campaign for re-election of Governor John E. Erickson, Democrat. Clark's Free Press exulted, last week, when Candidate Rankin spurned the "Aid of a Kept Press as Kiss of Death." Anaconda's Standard headlined: MUNCHAUSEN A PILLAR OF TRUTH COMPARED TO CLARK. Listed in the story were 6 "major, frenzied, malicious Clark lies." The sixth was "the statement made daily by the Clark newspaper that it is devoted solely to the interests...