Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The George amendment passed. Power interests congratulated themselves. The Federal Trade Commission will almost certainly make no report before Election Day and after that the "power trust" will be forgotten.
"He came to national attention," said the press, "during the Lorimer election to the U. S. Senate in 1909. Four Representatives confessed that they had received $1,000 bribes from Mr. Browne to vote for Lorimer. Mr. Browne was tried twice for bribery but was finally acquitted."
Dr. Angel Gallardo expressed his "amazement," and President de Alvear openly flayed Senor Pueyrredon for "such conduct." Both knew that with an Argentine presidential election scheduled for this spring, Senor Pueyrredon had made the grandest of grandstand plays to convince the electorate that he alone is of sufficiently tough presidential...
¶ A new tariff schedule of 1,200 items was announced by its drafter, M. Daniel Ser-ruys, Permanent Chief of the Ministry of Commerce. His schedule is primarily designed to win farmer votes at the spring election. It sharply reduces the duties on farm tractors, doubles or triples those...
While Chancellor Marx pondered the goose quill's command, last week, enemies of Paul von Hindenburg raised a feeble cry that it is "unconstitutional" for him to throw his immense influence into the political scale. They carpingly pointed out that, although the new presidential epistle stresses the need of postponing...