Word: campaigned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes left Harry Truman's service in 1947, he had kept mum about politics. His silence during the presidential campaign led fellow South Carolinians to wonder whether he looked on the Dixiecrats with favor. But not until last week did he let anybody know how he really felt about things: in the midst of a speech on foreign affairs he let loose a hot blast of scorn at the domestic Fair Deal...
...income, the consumer low food prices, and the taxpayer practically no pain at all (TIME, April 18). There was almost no chance of its passing Congress this session, but the Democratic faithful didn't mind too much: they decided to make Brannan's dream scheme the major campaign issue of the 1950 congressional elections. Brannan had staked his own future on it and knew it. Said he: "For me, it'll mean either a palace or a backhouse...
...stole the show at the Joint Atomic Energy Committee's hearing. For 2½ hours, the cropped-haired scientist set forth the intricacies of atomic science, gave sure, rapid-fire answers to polite questions-and punched gaping holes in Iowa Senator Bourke Hickenlooper's foundering one-man campaign against AEC Chairman David Lilienthal...
Bombs & Bombast. The campaign began just before the monsoon. Dhoti-clad Calcuttans left their steaming houses, clustered in the streets to drink lime squash, chew pan (made from the betel nut), and talk politics until tempers gave way and fists flew. Hoodlum gangs raced through the city, pasting posters, tearing down opposition signs, breaking up each other's soapbox meetings with shoes, brickbats, incendiary oil bombs, bursting bottles of nitric acid. A city ordinance banned loudspeakers, so electioneers shouted instead through megaphones, day & night...
...heat wave caught Canadian politicians in the final round of the general election campaign that ends June 27, but the weather did not stop them. They just peeled off their coats and went on with the job. In the past eight weeks Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Tory Leader George Drew had crisscrossed the Dominion in an appeal for votes. Despite all their oratory, the country's political temperature had stayed close to normal. It apparently would remain that way until election...