Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate knew it. Local politicos knew it. The retinue of reporters knew it. Without formal declaration, Massachusetts Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy launched his all-out campaign for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, as he crossed Wisconsin in a three-Cessna airplane expedition, getting lined up for the critical Wisconsin primary next April...
...miles to hear Kennedy speak in Madison. The tousle-headed Senator punched hard and earnestly. He pushed his Kennedy-Ervin labor bill ("We will find out in the Senate who is anti-racketeering and who is merely anti-labor-who wants a law this year and who wants a campaign issue for next year"). He proposed a Kennedy refinement of the Brannan farm plan. He hammered the Administration for "no new ideas, no bold action, no blare of bugles." Kennedy impressed crowds and seemingly, most of the state's Democratic leaders-apart from Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson...
Kennedy is determined to campaign as the man "going to the country for a decision," thus be able to march on the Los Angeles convention as the people's choice. To do it, he is willing to run in the primaries that would do him the most good: Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. Due soon in Wisconsin to give the first big test to Kennedy findings and theories: Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey...
...Streeters' campaign brought a wave of "suitcase companies"-actually subsidiaries of foreign corporations but legally independent. Through a suitcase company, for example, a U.S. steel company subsidiary buys ore in Venezuela, ships it in chartered vessels to Europe. The profits returned to the Bahamian company are not taxed, can be used for expansion outside the U.S. or "borrowed" by the U.S. parent company...
...more than $1,000,000 a year educating the U.S. public on the benefits of stock ownership. But last week the exchange was worried about all the new stockholders it has signed up and the kind of stocks they buy. The exchange increased its advertising budget 25% for a campaign to warn stockholders against tips and rumors, advised: "Hold your money tight when anyone gives you 'the inside dope.' " Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the U.S.'s biggest brokerage house, began to run ads in 210 newspapers entitled "Danger! Inside Tip Ahead." (It was the same...