Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dever's campaign also involves the tricky Massachusetts Transit Authority question. He has accused the MTA--and Bradford--of hiding a $9,000,000 deficit and of jacking up fares. Dever says the Republicans have failed to supply the Commonwealth with cheap water power. Referenda 5, 6, and 7, the labor bills, are pet peeves of Dever, and he has criticized the Governor's support of a 2 percent sales...
Bradford's campaign will be less pleasing to organized labor and the left wing in general. He stands mainly on his State House accomplishments, which include a $200,000,000 veterans housing program; efficient balancing of the state budget; no state tax on municipalities; juvenile delinquency aid; support of local education, and a long-range plan for highway reconstruction...
This man was a good at the poll as he was on the podium. In his last campaign Richmond, Virginia, gave Wintergreen more votes than Mason and Dixon combined, and in Lexington, Kentucky, he ran only 1,830,702 votes behind Straight Whiskey. What is more, he himself cast the final six votes necessary for his election...
...this Wintergreen, son of a Lower East Side song writer and a Pittsburgh playwright, was "A Man's Man," and he was said to "love the Irish and the Jews." When John P. was taking the stump, what man or woman was there who could refuse to shout his campaign slogans: "Even Your Dog Loves John P. Wintergreen" and "John P. Wintergreen--The Flavor Lasts." Who could resist the onslaught of goose pimples when John mounted the platform and began to tell a nation of his dreams of "The Full Dinner Jacket...
...this fall John P. Wintergreen has been with us in song only. The Presidential campaign has been dull and exhausting. We are bored with the candidates and tired by all the Issues of the Day. Now, John P. Wintergreen--there was a fine and simple man. He campaigned on a platform of love; that is all. And when there is love on the billboards, what are Issues of The Day? We have ended in thinking too deeply and quaffing too lightly...