Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still the focus for the Kremlin's drive was Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. While he awaited a final ruling on his life-term prison sentence, the Hungarian Communists roared against the "Western warmongers," whose "slander-and-lie campaign" was "attempting to capitalize on the Mindszenty trial." It was clear that the Reds were still trying to establish a working relationship with the Catholic Church-on their own terms. Last week Hungary's Bench of Bishops received a letter-supposedly written by Mindszenty and similar to the one read during the trial-urging an agreement. At week...
Advocate & Executor. But he remained loyal to Roosevelt. Acheson was one of the torchbearers in the 1940 campaign to put U.S. aid squarely behind Britain and France. He and three lawyer colleagues had written and made public a lawyer's brief supporting Roosevelt's right to swap the 50 U.S. destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Cordell Hull, Roosevelt invited Acheson back into his family as Assistant Secretary of State. Acheson gave up his law practice to take the $9,000-a-year...
Last week at a meeting in Chicago of 250 of its leaders, the A.M.A. finally swung into action. Hired to run the new education campaign was Clem Whitaker, a stem-winding San Francisco public relations man. An old hand at fighting government-in-medicine (with his pert partner-wife, Leone Baxter, he led the successful California fight against Governor Earl Warren's compulsory insurance plan in 1945), Clem said what the medical brass wanted to hear: "The doctors of this country are in the front lines today [of] a basic struggle between ... socialism and private initiative . . . Oscar Ewing, that...
...Clem also knew that an education campaign would not be enough. His experience in California had taught him that voluntary health insurance is the doctors' best weapon against compulsory, Government-regulated plans. Said he: "We want everybody in the health insurance field selling insurance during the next two years as he never sold it before ... If we can get ten million more people insured in the next year and ten million more the next year, the threat of socialized medicine in this country will be over...
...factories by plane. Last year her company turned out more than 100 million jars, not far behind Muncie's Ball Brothers Co., the biggest U.S. canning-jar maker. Last week, in a nip & tuck battle with Ball for the No. 1 spot, Mrs. Kerr launched her biggest advertising campaign...