Word: back-door
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...Health will be an important back-door issue, if Eisenhower runs," Westerfield concurred. The Democrats undoubtedly will use this issue, although not overtly, he concluded...
...Revolt of the Admirals: In 1948 he became Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Organizational Research and Policy, head of the controversial Operation 23, which prepared the Navy case against the B-36 and carried on a devious back-door campaign with newspapermen and politicians against the Administration policy of priority for air power. In 1949, when Burke's name came up for promotion to rear admiral, President Truman punitively crossed it off the list, later restored it when Admiral Forrest Sherman and press took up the issue...
...today. We don't take the News, but my servants do. Would you send the column to me?" Evie takes such jibes in stride. Says she: "My readers are janitors and cab drivers and ambassadors and Cabinet members' wives. What the hell, if I have a back-door public I don't care. As long as people like my own cook read me, I guess I don't have to worry. It's a good business...
...advertising agencies, sponsors and networks to sit down and try to arrive at some solution." One solution seemed some sort of informal "Loyalty Board." But the Authors' League of America, whose president is South Pacific's Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, denounced that solution as a "sorry plan for back-door censorship" and declared: "We do not believe in a little censorship, any more than in a large...
When the ballots were counted, the back-door users had given Laborite Craddock 25,335 votes and a clean-cut victory over Tory Windle who polled 19,313. A third candidate, running on the platform of the moribund Liberal Party which is hoping for a political comeback, was disastrously beaten, got less than 3,000 votes...