Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Stalin "replied" to a newspaperman's questionnaire late last month, he plunged the Western world into a whirlpool of violent controversy. Was Stalin's offer to meet President Truman behind the "iron curtain" made in good faith?--or was it only another sly twist in the Soviet propaganda campaign to split the Western defenses? The United States government has heavily inclined to the latter view and has consequently been excoriated or misunderstood by many people who sincerely believe that Stalin meant just exactly what he said...
James D. Cameron, Jr. '46, chairman of last fall's drive which netted $23,000, outlined a report he has written suggesting possible means of improving the "Service Fund Drive." These include changing the name of the drive, running a campaign each term, and not permitting a contributor to distribute his gift to the charity he wishes...
...have lost the confidence of the people. We are the subject of ridicule on every street corner. We are the laughing stock, because we didn't fight. If we endorse that campaign, the party will just evaporate from any position of importance in this country...
Morley Callaghan (class of '25) got the idea for this latest twist in university fund-raising last spring. Toronto had set itself a goal of $6,000,000 in gifts from alumni and friends, asked its most distinguished literary alumnus to write "a piece" for the campaign. Instead, Callaghan turned out The Varsity Story (Macmillan; $2.50), a rambling and nostalgic novel filled with crotchety old professors, bright young scientists and eager students...
Bankers and foreign traders squawked, arguing that the plan was simply another step in a campaign to eliminate all private interests from ECA business. But ECA took the position that European aid was for Europeans and not for the bankers-and as much of it as possible should therefore go to Europe...