Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound Court decisions, indicate, that the Association--though not without stormy debate--has allowed itself to be bullied by a committee apparently stacked with rightwing, witch-hunting elements. Each of the five legislative proposals, if enacted, would have the effect of reinitiating a segment of the anti Communist panic campaign of the early...
...France's Fifth Republic. When De Gaulle took office last June, some of his critics, disregarding the record of his previous self-restraint in power, freely predicted that he would soon be dictator of France. Nine months later De Gaulle is still waging a cautious and complicated campaign to win full mastery over the very force that sparked his return to power-the French army...
...campaign against canned music is being mounted by New York City's big (30,000 members ) Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. Calling itself "the first victim of automation,'' the federation (total membership: 260,000) says that only 75,000 members now make a living from music (average: $3,500 yearly). The union also reports a serious shortage of young string players, is handing out a minimum of 50 scholarships a year for instrumental students. Local 802 is particularly concerned with New York City's still relatively lusty night life, is spending...
Nonetheless, A. T. & T. constantly worries about its bigness. It has devised the most skillful public relations campaign in U.S. industry to sell itself to the public. No one at A. T. & T. would ever dream of saying that what is good for A. T. & T. is good for the country; A. T.& T. is doing its best to make it hard for the public to tell where . A.T. & T. leaves off and the country begins...
...recently ran a test in Baltimore, discovered that telephone salesgirls sold 112% more department store goods than floor salesgirls, at a cost 51% less. They do not intend to let merchants forget it. Says A. T. & T. Assistant Vice President James V. Ryan: "We will soon launch an advertising campaign to persuade more people to shop by phone. The merchants had better get ready to handle the phone calls," i.e., install more, phones...