Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House was in a minor pandemonium, with members milling around, gliding in & out of doors, haranguing one another, jostling down the aisle to have their noses counted. In the midst of what looked like a county fair, Administration forces were making good at last on a major Truman campaign promise: federal help in building homes for the country's ill-housed...
...Eminence, Ky., Theater Owner Arey Miles pushed a campaign to improve the unmarked grave of Cinemaster David W. Griffith, who died last year. Collected so far, from three exhibitors...
Dateline: Europe. While Ralph Coghlan headed the editorial page, the P-D won two Pulitzer Prizes: for its 1939 campaign which led to elimination of the St. Louis smoke nuisance, and its 1947 exposure of the political scandal behind the Centralia (Ill.) mine disaster. News staff reporters, whose stories furnished the material for the P-D's hard-hitting editorials, were aware nevertheless that the great prestige of the P-D's editorial page declined under Coghlan, chiefly because of unpredictable shifts in editorial position. Example: for months in 1940, the P-D damned F.D.R. as a dictator...
...reprints of his "news dispatches" (datelined Philadelphia, 1787) on the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Mild-mannered Irving Dilliard can also write hard-hitting editorials. He wrote the celebrated "contempt of court" editorial, pounded out many of the Centralia editorials, was mainly responsible for the P-D campaign to smash the corrupt Illinois machine of Governor Dwight Green. Under Dilliard, the page might not be as lively as under Coghlan; staffers hoped it would be better balanced and sounder...
Nevertheless, the Senate Executive Expenditures Committee and two other Congressional groups trumpeted that they would start investigating the five-percenters. That was a big job, since anyone who had kicked in for campaign funds, poured drinks for the right people or done the countless other things that made for influence in Washington, was equipped to be a five-percenter. But if the investigation should eliminate just a few of the five-percenters, and teach Government officials to steer clear of the influence boys, it would do a service not only to taxpayers but also to businessmen...