Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both sides had accepted the campaign as a national battleground. President Truman had proclaimed Lehman his man. Democratic big guns, ranging from Vice President Alben Barkley to Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., raked the state with oratory. Labor worked as never before. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, still smarting under criticism of his ''me, too" campaign in 1948, stumped the state almost as widely as his candidate. He called for a "holy crusade" to elect Dulles, lent Dulles a campaign staff...
...weeks before the election, Democratic campaign workers busily slapped up posters on the billboards of New Jersey's Hudson County. The posters read: "It Looks Like Wene." Just as energetically, Republican campaign workers slapped up other posters beside them. The Republican posters read: "But It's Really Hague...
There he became involved in a typically partisan student political campaign and was elected to an office under the auspices of the Czechoslovakian Socialist Party, Benes' Party. Because of these affiliations, soon after the internal overthrow of the government in February, 1948, Dane's name was put on a list that read...
With only one week of soliciting to go the Red Feather campaign goal for Harvard is still $10,000 short of its aim, Robert F. Haynes, chairman of the University division of the Community Fund disclosed last night...
...Alarmed at the number of businessmen who were dying off at the peak of their careers, a Great Neck, N.Y. group last week started a nationwide campaign called "Relax, U.S.A.," to save and lengthen lives. Take time out every so often to recharge the batteries, said the group, by 1) merely drowsing; 2) leisurely puffing on a cigar; 3) looking at the trees and the clouds...