Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much fuss. Nebraska's two Republican Senators, Kenneth Wherry and Hugh Butler, liked him. A handful of liberal Senators, led by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, were less happy about the President's choice. They remembered Matthews from 1946, when he sparkplugged a U.S. Chamber of Commerce campaign to paint Communist Red on the Administration and on union labor...
...More Rice Pudding. So Hagueism became a memory. Rice Pudding Day (when city, county and state job holders kicked back 3% of their annual salaries to a Boss Hague "campaign fund"), the fixed ballot boxes, the voting of the dead, the bullyboys beating up poll watchers, the cops swinging nightsticks on labor organizers-all that became history...
...Potsdam, past the tall pine trees that shade the Soviet Headquarters. When I sat down in Heinz Depper's compartment, he was looking at a big Red banner strung across a main street. The sign said: "Vote 'Ja' for democracy." It was part of a propaganda campaign for the Communist People's Congress "elections" this week...
Even with the most successful summer campaign Van Fleet does not think that the guerrillas can be finally defeated this year, but his plans call for cleaning them out of all Greece except the northern frontier areas. Actually, some military observers believe that Van Fleet is too optimistic, that the guerrillas will continue tormenting Greece as long as they are supplied and equipped from abroad. Last week Van Fleet still stood by what he had said when he first came to Greece: "My advice to the rebels is to give up now. Either stay and get killed...
...resign," he told Dutra, "or I can choose a candidate. I've talked to many people, and your name has constantly recurred . . ." "A great honor," Dutra broke in. Vargas, who had expected reluctance, was caught off balance. Thereafter, while he ostensibly supported Dutra's campaign, he actually sabotaged it behind the scenes...