Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"If I can prevent it, there shall be no further disturbance of this country by an election for two years. ... I wish to make it quite clear that I am going to stand for no monkeying. It will rest with the two other parties, not with us, whether or not...
One important obstacle to another election in the near future is the matter of campaign funds. The Liberal party alone had spent $570,000; the expenses of Laborites and Conservatives were even higher. It would be difficult to raise any more such sums from even the most loyal party members...
¶ A highly publicized figure of the election was hard-hitting, dry-voting Lady Nancy Astor. At the end of a campaign that included everything from singing the national anthem to physical combat, she was returned to Parliament by the narrow squeak of 211 votes. Worn out by weeks of...
*The final pre-election quotations on the London Stock Exchange were:
Chester Alan Arthur Jr., 28, of Santa Barbara, Cal., grandson of the late Republican President of the U. S., is a sailor on a freighter, intends to write a nautical novel. Last week, on shore leave in Philadelphia, he said he had supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in the recent election...