Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...folksy, sentimental column, "Half Minute Interviews," became San Diego's clearing house for good works. He raised $40,000 to buy shoes for needy youngsters, rounded up 600 wheelchairs for cripples, organized an annual Santa Helper campaign to provide money, clothes and toys, ran a depression Job-Finding Club, bought Seeing Eye dogs for the blind, found homes for orphaned children...
Safety First. In Louisville, Mrs. Sarah McGrew, suing the city for $5,580, charged that she had tripped and fallen over a safety campaign sign...
...flamboyant fashion, Chicago had given a lusty preview of the national anti-VD campaign which opened last week in more than 300 cities in 28 states. The U.S. Public Health Service, helping to plan and synchronize the local efforts, had arranged with the Communication Materials Center of New York's Columbia University Press to provide posters, car cards, window displays, pamphlets and match books...
...Down. The public campaign was as plain-spoken as the anti-VD drives directed at servicemen during the war. Motorists in Arkansas found themselves questioned by billboards: "Have you got syphilis?" Barflies put nickels in Washington jukeboxes to hear a Negro quartet sing Put It Down, an appeal to stamp out VD. The Columbia Center was about to issue a recording by Balladeer Tom Glazer of a twangy song called An Ignorant Cowboy. Its last stanza...
...kicking off the 1949 campaign, Chicago got its chance to remind its citizens that it had pioneered in bringing the fight against VD into the open. Its publicity-loving Health Commissioner, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, once dragged in Al Capone's girl friend for a blood test. He still tacks up syphilis quarantine signs himself, with the butt of a pistol, on any tavern which refuses to send its bar girls in for tests. Pointing to Chicago's syphilis rate, which has dropped 45% against a national drop of 37%, Bundesen boldly boasts: "Chicago is the safest place...