Word: campaigners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Republicans, trying to reform their party under fire, had ditched the machine professionals, persuaded four outstanding amateurs in politics to be their candidates (TIME, Sept. 26). Less wisely, the Republicans launched what the Republican Philadelphia Inquirer labeled a "false" and "vicious" campaign against Dilworth, trying to prove that he was a crony of Communists. Philadelphia's two major news papers, both staunchly Republican, endorsed Dilworth...
...blank-check authority it granted the Byrd-controlled legislature to set up new voting requirements might prove more harmful to their cause than the present $1.so-a-year poll tax. ¶In Texas, a straight anti-poll-tax 2 amendment went down by a 24,000-vote margin. ¶Campaign strategists for Senator Robert Taft got off to a flying start in the 1950 elections by steering through an amendment eliminating straight-ticket voting from the Ohio ballot and substituting the "Masachusetts ballot," which lists all candidates alphabetically by office and without regard to party. Taft supporters, who feared...
Krug got in rows with other federal officials over reclamation projects, got the President's back up by going to Congress for more money over the head of the Budget Bureau. He was also found wanting when political accounts were added up after the 1948 election campaign...
...devoted New Dealer from 1933 on under Franklin Roosevelt, Chapman had also proved his undying loyalty to the Fair Deal by covering nearly 26,000 miles in 1948 as advance man for the Truman campaign train. A teetotaler, Chapman at a White House gathering was once asked by Franklin Roosevelt, "Oscar, mix us a drink," and had to confess he did not know how. The President pretended to be vexed: "I can't have anyone in my little Cabinet who doesn't know how to mix a Martini." Earnest, literal-minded Oscar Chapman had to be assured later...
Quirino's chief opponent was rabble-rousing, Yale-educated José P. Laurel, the islands' puppet President under the Japanese. "If collaboration means helping your people to live and survive," said Laurel on the stump, "I would do it over again." Through the campaign Laurel worked desperately to rid himself of a reputation for being anti-American; he never quite shook it off. He also made much of his personal honesty, which Filipinos accept. But between the Quirino and Laurel machines, Filipinos had a Hobson's choice. No one doubts that Laurel's followers would...