Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political Assets. In Frankfort, Ky., after winning the Republican primary for state attorney general, Samuel S. Cannon reported his campaign costs: $2 for a photograph, 50? for stamps...
...from the state, taken legal action against a Tuskegee Negro boycott of downtown stores and against Montgomery Negroes when they boycotted city buses. On that basis, Patterson was elected Governor. But by last week, John Patterson had discovered to his embarrassment that the irresponsible promise held out during a campaign is not so easy to live up to while holding responsible office...
...vacation in Texas, Mexico and Arkansas, Louisiana's Governor Earl Long abruptly called his state legislature together in special session to consider a slate of 21 bills he wanted passed. The "urgent" agenda ran from vengeful bills against Long's political enemies, through pork-barrelling campaign provender, to a whimsical item that would have barred airlines from grounding stewardesses when they got married. The legislature at Baton Rouge last week just as abruptly answered the Governor's call: it adjourned 20 minutes after it had convened-the shortest session in Louisiana history, and quite possibly a world...
Bull Halsey became a great commander. Off Guadalcanal he won a campaign so tight that at the end of it, he was down to "2,300 gallons of aviation gasoline and three or four planes fit to fight." From the South China Sea to Formosa he improvised great sea-air sweeps that cost the Japanese "so many ships that I cannot count them." As commander of the big Third Fleet at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, he was the scourge of the Japanese Navy. Toward the end of the war, Halsey took task forces of battleships as well as carriers...
Richard Nixon, by Earl Mazo. An expert biography, flattering but far from a campaign puff-piece...