Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That summer, he began his campaign in a Ford car, holding meetings in tiny villages, at the roadside, under trees. He spoke from the running board, from oxcarts, from piles of stones. A shabbily dressed man, with a simple eloquence and a poet's understanding of people, he got his message across...
...desperation, during last year's campaign, some of his opponents even tried the unorthodox (for Puerto Rico) tactic of raking up his private life-Muñoz' first marriage broke up in the late '303, when he fell in love with a former high-school teacher named Inez Maria Mendoza. They have had two children (now 9 and 8), were married two years ago, after Muñoz finally got a divorce. In the election Muñoz got 62% of the total vote...
...Rutland (Vt.) Junior College, founded 1946, the first three years had been bitterly hard. To begin with, the original $150,000 fund-raising campaign had fallen short by $60,000. Tuitions ($400 a year) failed to bridge the gap. Then the trustees asked the Rutland city council for help. That involved a referendum, but last week it was still a month away, and Rutland's 16-member faculty had not been paid since mid-March. Facing these facts, President Benjamin B. Warfield, a 44-year-old Navy veteran, went to the college books for figures. The college needed...
...decided to launch their own fund-raising campaign. The student council called a meeting of the student body, and undergraduate speakers presented the facts. Said Student Council President Louis Salebra, Rutlander and veteran: if the college failed to finish out the year, students who planned to transfer elsewhere for their junior and senior years (and most of them did) might lose an entire year's credits...
...week's end, the undergraduates' campaign had raised $6,373 worth of cash and pledges and the campaign was still going full tilt. There was even a chance that Rutland Junior College would be able to open next September, if enough Rutlanders voted yes in the referendum...