Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mesta, well-heeled oil and machine-tool heiress (TIME, March 14), raised Democratic campaign funds and stuck by Harry Truman last year when the canapes were scarce in Democratic circles. But she really hadn't expected any reward, she said, "not one single thing." "It would be a lot easier to stay in Washington and I'd have a lot more fun," she told a columnist. "But I think this post is an advancement for women and I ought to accept...
Appeal lor Help. Harassed Hawaiians, fearful of the ruthless hold that Harry Bridges had fastened on their islands, turned to Washington for help. In three days last week, 3,930 Hawaiians (including at least a few I.L.W.U. men opposed to the strike) contributed $10,650 to a Honolulu Advertiser campaign to pay for huge two-page ads describing their plight in the Washington Post and Evening Star and the New York Times. "We know that the people of the 48 states do not know what the people of Hawaii are up against," said...
...Consult the People." In the bustling campaign preceding election day, Belgium's leading party, the Christian Socialists (Roman Catholics) had borne the Leopoldist banner. They counted on the backing of Catholic Flemings, who are partisans of Leopold's handsome commoner wife, Flemish Mary Liliane...
...Only Worry. How effective Drew's attacks had been against the Liberals would not be known until election night. There were signs, however, that his campaign had hurt the socialist CCF. In last week's provincial election in British Columbia, the CCF had its worst setback since entering B.C. politics...
...Last week, as he does every week, a man with short-cropped, iron-grey hair, blue eyes and an easy smile stopped in at Room 102L. Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads, director of Memorial, the world's biggest cancer hospital, is an outstanding symbol of medicine's determined campaign against a disease which causes one out of every seven deaths in the U.S. Dr. Rhoads also heads the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, whose 14 stories rise beside the hospital. In this tower of hope, the world's most ambitious cancer research laboratory, highly specialized scientists...