Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Republican President Charles K. McWhorter 3L, whose adherents conceded the national election twenty minutes after Governor Thomas E. Dewey held his last campaign press conference at 1 a.m. yesterdays, promised to "keep up the good fight...
...dormitories and off-campus houses are being solicited to raise funds for the Community Chest campaign. Meanwhile, the Council is also trying to sign up volunteers to do social work in various metropolitan Boston settlement houses...
...radio program is just one front of the UN Council's campaign to increase global-mindedness. The group also provides speakers to address church groups, clubs, schools, and the like; and, during the past two years, it has brought many well-known statesmen to Harvard to address University audiences...
Nobody got excited until about 12:45 a.m. The evening started lazily. There had been little enthusiasm in the campaign, although Republican cockiness had passed for it now and then, and Mr. Roper had told everybody what was going to happen. The man selling newspapers outside the subway station ignored the election and just shouted "Get your Record here," as usual; almost nobody was watching the television set at Jim's Place...
Strictly speaking (an unusual habit for Vag), he had been an auditor for the past four years. He had taken a few notes, clipped some campaign speeches and studded his lapel with a button or two. But he had written no Congressmen, signed no petitions. For the most part, he had only sat and listened, a government auditor with his ear miles off the ground...