Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours a day, often accompanied by his wife, the Tory candidate stumped his district, tramping streets, ringing doorbells, holding press conferences and speaking at one rally after another (100 in the last ten days of the campaign). To back his cause and secure Hammersmith, Lord Woolton ("Lord Woof-Woof" to the Laborites) put the whole machinery of the national party into high gear. Money, pamphlets and speakers poured into the district. From almost every street corner Tory sound trucks and mobile movie units blared out statistics compiled at the Conservative Political Education Center. Telephone boxes, butcher shops, dance halls, pubs...
Safe Play. The church board, by a vote of 28 to 9, approved the invitation. But some of the congregation's embittered minority, which includes both retired Northerners and native-born Southerners, helped to stir up the community. Anonymous midnight phone calls threatened Douds with violence. A whispering campaign was started to the effect that both he and Graham were Communists. Fiery crosses began to blaze-two on the church lawn and one before the home of Baptist Minister Graham...
...Chrysler was aware that competition was back with a vengeance. It planned to kick off its new models with the biggest advertising campaign in its history. Every major U.S. newspaper has been carrying full-page ads, and the splurge in Canada will be "the greatest ever conducted by a U.S. corporation." There, four major magazines will carry twelve-page color inserts. Said a Chrysler executive: "We are proceeding as if the buyer's market is already here...
Marquand still becomes choleric when he thinks of the stuff he wrote. "It seemed to me the most dreadful thing to end your days putting your energy into a campaign for Lifebuoy Soap-and all those Phi Beta Kappas sitting around trying to get ideas...
...campaign featured a driving cross-country speaking routine in which he pounded away at all but one of these themes...