Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their "anti-radicalism" campaign, Queens Democrats received aid from Long Island newspapers, local Republicans, New York City councilmen, three veterans' groups, and J. Parnell Thomas, then chairman of the House un-American Activities Committee...
...three men were not reinsisted. On May 2, the A.V.C. chapter called a meeting "to work out united action to reinstate the three suspended students." Several clubs joined in a campaign for this purpose, and on May 12, they proclaimed, "All other conceivable measures of protest having failed, a class stoppage" should be held...
...other minor points involved in the drive--including the changing of its name from the "Combined Charities Drive" to the "Harvard Charities and Service Fund Drive" in order to make it more palatable to students who had objected last year to the Council getting a cut from a "charities" campaign--the Council, approved the nomination of Jerome P. Gavin '50 as chairman of the fall drive and George J. Feeney '50 as treasurer...
...full and complete investigation of all lobbying activities intended to influence, encourage, or retard legislation." Backed by the Democratic party, this step would presumably also carry the approval and support of the Justice Department and of President Truman, who sharply attacked lobbying activities in the Eightieth Congress during his campaign last summer...
...forced to withdraw from activity, in the Wallace party last year, according to allegations made by the the Progressive Party. The Wallace organization also charged that Professor Curtis D. MacDougatt, its candidate for the Senate, was warned that he would be forced to resign unless he retired from the campaign...