Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stumping through his own part of the continent-Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico-Nominee Robinson last week assaulted Intolerance, leading issue in that section. He flayed "a lot of women with short skirts and long necks" for the Whispering Campaign. He cried: "Neither the Republican nor the Demo cratic platform declares in favor of Prohibition." He said: "Senator Curtis and I are dry - nobody knows how dry we are!" Also, he mixed with Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, in an argument of the kind that is thoroughly enjoyed in a country of long adjectives...
...also said that big business demands and gets, because of contributions to the Republican campaign fund, almost any tariff rate it wants. You charged that giving to the steel men, to use your example, a tariff of 25 per cent was robbery, but you added that you were ready to give 10 per cent., 15 per cent., 20 per cent., 22 per cent., 23 per cent., or even as high as 24 per cent. Economists are agreed that all protection, except to "infant" industries, means robbery and that the high American standard of wages is not due to tariff...
...interest and activity of members of the University during the closing weeks of the presidential campaign will center in the Harvard Union where an imposing array of speakers of national prominence will set forth the issues of the campaign in an effort to capture the college vote...
...primary issue of the presidential campaign is the restoration of the government to the people", said Senator David I. Walsh, United States Senator from Massachusetts and ardent supporter of Alfred E. Smith, Democratic presidential candidate, yesterday afternoon in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...
...think that prohibition is a decided question of the campaign and that each candidate is entitled to a fair statement on the stand of his opponent. Each has a right to a frank answer on the prohibition question...