Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign, ninth in a current series, netted close to $50,000 more than the best previous attempt and gathered funds from 45 per cent of the alumni. Non-alumni contributions amounted to nearly $60,000 and raised the average gift in the campaign from...
...this situation, the old party battle between, moderates and radicals, intellectuals and unionists should intensify. Whatever the result, the Laborites clearly did not lose on Thursday because of Hugh Gaitskell, who ran a tough and expert campaign. Instead, the Labor Party lost because they failed to convince the voters that they offered a coherent and responsible alternative to a smoothly operating Tory government...
...first fortnight of the campaign, Labor's keen, highly organized drive in the crucial "marginal" constituencies had reduced the Tories' once commanding public opinion poll lead to a slim 1½ points. At first, while Labor bored...
Tories had behaved much like the U.S. Republicans of 1948, campaigning decorously on the confident assumption that all they needed to do was to avoid rocking the boat. But unlike Tom Dewey's cohorts, the Tories awoke in time to change their campaign style. "Attack," ordered Tory Chairman Lord Hailsham last week. "Expose the grisly Socialist record. Ridicule their crude pretensions...
...growth is bound to go down. Furthermore, in the days of breakneck drive for growth in the '20s and '30s, writes Nove, "Iron ore or coal mines were 'creamed,' the best and most easily accessible mineral being taken as quickly as possible. The virgin lands campaign was launched with little consideration for the long-term problem of soil conservation. [There was] ruthless cutting of trees in the most accessible areas...