Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entry into it, critical of Gaullism's "insufficiency of dialogue." Giscard, once De Gaulle's Finance Minister, is youthful, bright and eloquent, with good long-term political prospects. Right now, the prospects of his party depend on the Gaullists. He is linked with them in an ad hoc Union for the Defense of the Republic that combines most Giscardists and the Gaullists on the same ticket...
Instead, the paper ran a more effective sort of ad. Housewives Market announced a week-long special sale of many staple goods, plus free balloons for the kiddies and free orchids for the ladies. Despite the entreaties of the pickets, both Negroes and whites streamed into the market last week and business was almost back to normal. Militants muttered that Oakland was in for more trouble. But for the time being at least, William Knowland had won his battle...
...Tribune's advice, many whites stood in line at the market. And Knowland continued to encourage them. News stories appeared regularly on Page 1 giving store hours. Knowland also ran a full-page ad showing a gloved hand gripping a revolver surrounded by inky darkness. "Think it over carefully," said the caption, "because some time soon you may have to decide whether you want to run a business with a gun to your head or close up shop." The ad announced a campaign for "Citizens Pledged Against Coercion" and urged readers to sign up. With similar ads running daily...
...protest, saying: "I can't work for Knowland any longer." Rush Greenlee, a Negro reporter who had been hired a year ago and who had turned out incisive articles on the ghetto, also resigned with a blast at Knowland. Other staffers laid plans to run a separate ad disavowing the publisher's position. At that point, Knowland backed off a bit and said that no more counterboycott ads would...
...snowy afternoon of the New Hampshire primary, a McCarthy radio ad asked the listener, "How would you feel if you woke up tomorrow morning and found out that Eugene McCarthy...