Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kennedy represents the eleventh Massachusetts district in the lower house of Congress where he serves on the House Committee for Education and Labor. The son of Joseph P. Kennedy '12, former Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission and one-time ambassador to England, the Representative covered the victorious campaign and election of the Labor Party in England for the International News Service...
...Blackall had served as head of the drive since 1947, when she temporarily resigned her position as Annex publicity director to manage the campaign...
Last fall, when he was called, he took on the apparently hopeless task of rebuilding the Democrats' dwindling bank balance. He coaxed a whopping $1,500,000 out of contributors. Early this year, a grateful Harry Truman recalled: "There were times in this campaign when we were pretty well strapped. We couldn't buy radio time; we couldn't even pay for transportation. But we did get Louis Johnson interested . . . and from the time he began operations we were able to make the necessary tours and get some of the radio time necessary...
...Joseph E. Penkala demonstrated a new approach to the voter during his campaign for treasurer of Warren, R.I.-he spent most of the week before election day at home baking pies (an art he learned as a Boy Scout) and distributing them to the electorate...
Perle is go-getting and able in her own way. She is a money-raiser extraordinary. At Harry Truman's request, she hustled her checkbook out to Kansas City in 1946, saved the day for his campaign to purge his home-town Congressman, Roger Slaughter. As co-chairman of last year's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners, she raised $250,000, kept at it doughtily during the campaign. Declared Louis Johnson, chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee: "When our crowd got discouraged, Perle Mesta would raise hell. She called us men of little faith. She was a tonic...