Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already been collected from Freshmen who were solicited during Registration, James D. Cameron, Jr. '46, campaign chairman, announced yesterday. Members of the Class of '52 pledged an additional $6000. If canvassers can collect this entire amount, it will be one of the largest gifts to a charity drive that any class has ever contributed, Cameron explained...
...first time, donors will be able to earmark their gifts for a specific charity. Last year, the Council ran a College-wide poll to determine various allotments, but in this week's campaign, the individual contributor will decide who gets how much. Eight charities are listed on the donor cards; any other one can be added except for religious charities. These, Cameron said, are not allowed because all donations represent. Harvard College as a whole...
...almost eerie calm of the campaign continued through election night. The vast throng which traditionally invades Manhattan's Times Square with horns, bells, whistles and placards simply did not materialize. Broadway crowds were small er than on any normal Saturday night...
...Instead of candy and nuts, youngsters of Mentor, Ohio demanded needles, thread and buttons on their Hallowe'en rounds as their part in the campaign to help the people of Suolahti, Finland, a town, which Mentor has "adopted." ¶ Newark's Judge Nicholas Fernicola ruled that Mrs. W. J. Clark had a perfect right to hit a bill collector with a broom. Said the judge: "A woman's home is her castle, and she doesn't have to have anyone in it she doesn't want." ¶In San Francisco, Patrick James Fleming...
...expiate this sense of sin Oppenheimer threw himself into the campaign for international atomic regulation. He was appointed to a seven-man board (chairman: David Lilienthal) to suggest U.S. policy on the future of atomic energy. Chalk in hand, Oppie lectured to the nonscientific members for ten days on atomic energy, patiently repeating the lesson whenever some member got lost. Oppenheimer was responsible for much of the writing, and many of the ideas, in the resulting 34,000-word Acheson-Lilienthal Report (TIME, April 8, 1946), which called for an international atomic development authority. Says Lilienthal: "Robert is the only...