Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before heading home, Rockefeller practiced his emerging new campaign line. Republicans must "put up the kind of candidates who can win," said he, "and stand for frank facing of issues as they exist today, with honest and courageous solutions." Before Rockefeller landed in New York, Long Island Congressman Stuyvesant Wainwright, whose brother works for Rockefeller, announced from Washington a "draft Rockefeller" movement ready to set up a Midwestern headquarters. He was shortly seconded by Wisconsin's Congressman Alvin O'Konski, who promised that Rockefeller would have a full slate of delegates in the April Wisconsin primaries...
...Nelson Rockefeller, who last month defied the advice of politicos and sponsored a compulsory shelter plan for all homes in New York State (TIME, July 20). In working sessions Rockefeller, backed by Civil Defense Mobilizer Leo Hoegh, got his fellow Governors to formally 1) endorse a "vigorous and continuing campaign of education" on fallout hazards and the need for privately built shelters, 2) promise to survey shelter facilities in their own state buildings and set up alternate capitols in protected spots. (Twelve states already have them.) They also cabled the House Appropriations Committee, asking for a $12 million budget item...
...just arrested a colonel for getting into politics, he himself appeared in uniform and armpit-deep in medals. The opposition wailed again when Kubitschek handed the powerful Ministries of Public Works and Justice-Interior to two pro-Lott politicos. One openly promised to "integrate" his ministry in the campaign...
...have moved the Administration to take a sterner view of foreign nations that still jealously preserve high tariffs and import quotas against dollar goods long after the need is past. At next month's annual meeting of the World Bank in Washington, the Administration will launch its strongest campaign yet to persuade other nations to ease their trade barriers against...
...Hathaway shirts' man-with-the-eye-patch series (probably no other campaign "has been so widely copied in seeking a startling device to break advertising monotony...