Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a memory like Jim Farley's, easygoing Bill Boyle knows thousands of wardheelers by their first names. He saw to it that the boss shook the hands and slapped the backs of as many of them as possible. His biggest coup of the campaign: routing Truman by bus and car through five downstate Illinois counties that had not gone Democratic in 50 years. Truman carried them all, took the state...
Regularity Counts. County Judge Harry Truman took a fancy to the youngster. When Senator Truman headed up the War Investigating Committee, he sent for Boyle to be his assistant counsel. In 1944 Boyle was called in again to help ailing Bob Hannegan run the Roosevelt-Truman campaign. On the side-the patronage boss gets no pay-he makes an unspectacular but comfortable living practicing law in Washington...
Living Example. Then the man whose campaign slogan had been unity bluntly declared: "The Republican Party is split wide open. It has been split wide open for years, but we have tried to gloss it over." He added: "I am a living example that that doesn't work." What Dewey had in mind seemed to be a purge...
This huge Unionist victory was due in no small part to a continuous campaign of vilification of the North, conducted in the Republic south of the border. "How can I hold out the hand of friendship [to Eire] when [she has] a dagger in one hand, a pistol in the other, and a jemmy in her pocket?" complained the North's Prime
...financed measures as the voluntary health insurance plan offered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions (TIME, Dec. 13). In its fighting mood, the A.M.A. has even levied a $25 assessment on each of its 140,000 members. The $3,500,000 is to be used in an "education" campaign to tell the U.S. about the advantages of the "American system" of medical care (i.e., the status quo) as against Blue Cross-Blue Shield or Oscar Ewing's plan...