Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surrender of the Pie Cards. Thus Murray brought to an end eleven years of a Communist campaign to wiggle into and capture his C.I.O. The overwhelmingly right-wing delegates voted down the line with Murray. They were mostly "pie card" unionists (men & women on union payrolls), not labor's rank & file. They were well disciplined. With a loud aye, in effect they surrendered their old constitutional authority as a convention and gave Murray and his executive board virtually absolute power over 39 C.I.O. unions-the power to 1) bar Communists from sitting on the executive board, 2) expel...
...Sims, who is a lawyer, taught-and he learned. "I'm trying," he explained, "to work out a liberal program a Southerner can run on and get elected." To do it he had mortgaged his home in Orangeburg to buy the trailer, had sunk every cent into the campaign. The primaries weren't due until next August, but Sims had no machine and knew he made a barn-sized target as the state's only avowed liberal in Congress. A good many wise birds in South Carolina politics, who quote the old maxim...
...will have to strengthen its labor bloc, without which the Fair Deal cannot remain in power. Last week, at the very beginning of the key drive to unseat Senator Taft, a non-union candidate defeated a UAM member in the Detroit mayoralty election--a disturbing start for the campaign against Taft, a campaign which could be the pivotal factor in pre-1952 politics...
...Republicans, of course, face a far worse problem. Mr. Dulles didn't have much to say in his campaign, and what he did say was managed at least as badly as Dewey's fiasco last year. The GOP will have to come up with a new program and new managers if it hopes to get back into power at all. It will have to stop harping on the welfare state, which is evidently a much overrated bugaboo. It will have to turn up some candidates whose virtues extend farther than smooth, untroubled faces and innocuous minds...
...total of donations soared to 315 pints yesterday as the Brooks House emergency blood drive committee wound up its three week whirlwind campaign...