Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Iowa's Henry Wallace stopped his presidential campaign motorcade in Pittsburgh, hopped out and footed it for 20 minutes up & down a hillside...
...more than 50,000 strong. Akron's rubber workers and the Democratic machine put on the biggest political show in the city's history; more than 60,000 stood for two hours along the main streets, cheering wildly as Truman passed. In Springfield, Ill., the oldtime campaign flares were burning and streets were packed twelve deep. In Duluth, half the city (pop. 110,000) lined Superior Street for more than two miles, clambered on roofs, peered from office windows, crowded so close that the President's car brushed their clothes...
...ahead. This month, re-equipped by Greece's Communist neighbors, the guerrillas made a startling comeback by attacking government positions in the Vitsi Mountains (TIME, Oct. 11). The Greek army, which had heroically sustained casualties up to 13% in the Grammos operation, had little appetite for the Vitsi campaign. The guerrillas had a fresh, seemingly unlimited supply of land mines which they were using to the full; World War II veterans know what intensive mining does to a soldier's morale. Last month the Greek government sent an S.O.S. to Washington. Its gist: there are actually more guerrillas...
...general sailed his flat-brimmed, Pershing-style khaki campaign hat on to a table, and sagged into a chintz-covered chair. Scowling across the parlor of his Managua, hilltop mansion, Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza grumbled: "I did everything I could to prevent what is coming, but there's no way to keep the peace in Central America. For years Nicaragua's Guardia National has stood like a Chinese wall in Central America, stopping trouble from going north and south. God knows I'm a patient man, but there is nothing...
News on the Run. There were few such snafus aboard the campaign specials that roamed the U.S. last week. But even without them, the specials were no gravy trains to the working press. Though both the Dewey and Truman trains carried loudspeakers, the reporters had to hop off for platform speeches if they wanted to size up crowds. And they heard so many speeches that they began to sound like broken records. Stories were written in a hurry, lest they miss the telegraph operator at the station stop. At some points, Western Union stationed runners along the track, to catch...