Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glasgow, H. J. Tennant, the Liberal candidate, was forced to seek police protection, while Miss Violet Robertson, Conservative for the St. Roller constituency, was spat upon, "kicked in the shin" and "treated insultingly" by a crowd of hooligans. In London H. Hogbin, Liberal candidate for Battersea, was forced to cancel all his meetings because he could never make himself heard. Even the pleas of his opponent for fair play failed to help matters. Lord Curzon was another victim of the rowdies. There were many other incidents of "howling down" meetings. The Labor Party at its London headquarters admitted that some...
Chicago. After one luncheon speech (Chamber of Commerce), he became possessed of a fever, had to cancel the rest of his program...
...censors saw no occasion for acting against me-though they said ' the presence in the city of the individual . . . was in no sense pleasing or desirable.' In a statement from the stage I announced that at the suggestion of a Boston minister I had decided to cancel my engagement and return to Los Angeles...
...incapacity of Mrs. Harding caused the President to cancel even a partial trip over the Richardson Trail by automobile, as had been planned. The day after arriving in Fairbanks, the President and the chief members of his party spoke in the baseball park at Fairbanks. The temperature was 94° in the shade, and there were three cases of heat prostration in the audience. Mr. Harding declared that he felt himself to be a real sourdough, because he was the first President to visit Alaska. A part of the ceremonies was the presentation of a moose-hide collar, ornamented with gold...
Among the plans published were 1) to buy peace by having the Government cancel its debts and make foreign loans on condition that the favored governments destroy all war materials, 2) to deprive Congress of power to raise funds for war, to abolish the Army and Navy, and to make it illegal for any nation to prepare, declare or carry on warfare, 3) to make public property of "oil, minerals, trade and territory " which changed hands in the late war (this plan was proposed editorially by The New York Call (Labor), which added: "We will never get this through...