A Campaign Is Coming and It Will Bring Slogans
A historical meditation on electoral campaigns from Washington to Polk, tracing how songs and chants fueled party battles. It notes figures like Borah, Harrison, Taylor, and Clay, and details how campaign music framed early American political contests.
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William E. Borah
Idaho
Brooklyn
U. S
America
Republic
George Washington
United States
Campaign Song Echoes From Early American Elections
Discusses campaign songs from 1840 to 1860 including Old Rough and Ready and Old Tippecanoe, Know-Nothing and Free Soil chants for Fremont, Buchanan's victory, and Lincoln the Illinois rail splitter. Notes the role of music in energizing voters and shaping party images.
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Franklin Pierce
Winfield Scott
Fillmore
Democratic Party
James Buchanan
Pennsylvania
New
Republican Party
James C. Fremont
Hall
Fremont
Pathfinders
Nye neutrality fight fades as political pressure shifts
A Washington briefing notes relief in the Nye neutrality bid collapse, with White House and State Department officials buoyed as Southern congressmen fret over cotton and embargo fears. The piece traces campaign songs, past presidents, and the Roosevelt era political stakes, highlighting Farley and Bell’s roles and farm policy contrasts.
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Washington
White House
State Department
Gerald P. Nye
J. P. Morgan
Nye
Woodrow Wilson
Committee On Foreign Relations
New England
England
Japan
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Haile Selassie
du Ponts
Foreign Relations Committee
Key Pittman
United States
America
Nyo
Africa
Latin America
James A. Farley
Democratic National Committee
Roosevelt
Huguenot Descendants Gain New Homes Across Countries
Saounet II granted arms by 1570 to the line. His sons Isaac, Robert, and Pierre, driven by persecution, fled France for London and were naturalized in 1683. Isaac settled in Calvert County Maryland around 1700, wed Elizabeth Williams. Robert settled Cecil County Maryland with Margaret Derrell. Pierre joined the Staten Island Huguenot colony where he lived and died.
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Isaac
Robert
Pierre
France
London
America
Calvert County
Maryland
Elizabeth Williams
Cecil County
Margaret Derrell
Staten Island
Palet's Ledger, Inc
WNU
Rulers’ Tricks Claim Global Rule by Toy World Book
Collier's Weekly notes eighteenth century China’s Emperor Ch'ing Long used a circulated book to claim world rule. It listed "the world's 42 countries and 231 tribes" as acknowledging him as emperor, deceiving his credulous subjects.
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Ch'ing Long
China
Collier’s Weekly
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