Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first hints were not long in coming. Outside the White House photographers approached Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who had taken no part in the campaign. "Haven't you got enough pictures of us?" asked the secretary. Said a photographer: "Yes, but another four years is just beginning." "But not for me," replied Forrestal with a grin...
...White. But most of them did owe their election to the issues which the President raised in his attacks on the 80th Congress. A few unknowns, who thought they had no chance to win, were swept in. Some, who did not subscribe to all of Harry Truman's campaign promises, were elected because of local issues. But a composite of the new congressional faces showed a political complexion much like Harry Truman's. Representative faces...
...served in appointive political jobs-lately as a state liquor-control commissioner-but had never run for elective office. Though he is an heir to the Mennen shaving-cream fortune, he will not get his share until he is 40. His Republican family refused to back his campaign...
...York had cost Truman the state's 47 electoral votes. If he had been on the ballot in Illinois, and had received the 48 to 64,000 votes cast for Progressive candidates for local offices, he would have given Dewey that state too. But his loud & noisy campaign had struck no roots. He had managed to convince the voters that he had only one major policy-Russia was always right, the U.S. always wrong. Obviously, the future of Gideon's army-if it had a future-was parlous...
...Louisville, Ky., William F. Holliger, 23-year-old G.O.P. precinct captain, paid off an election bet, jumped into the Ohio River clutching a Dewey campaign picture...