Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year later the Backers were divorced, and Dolly married her managing editor, Theodore Olin Thackrey. She bought the Bronx Home News, merged it with the Post, and promoted Ted Thackrey to co-publisher and co-editor. They turned out to be no smooth-working team. During the presidential campaign, they debated the candidates and issues in the editorial columns of the Post. Ted was all out for Wallace. Dolly, when she finally made her mind up, was for Dewey. (Staffers, in a letter to the editors, disagreed with both...
Died. Mrs. Flora Drummond, 70, militant British suffragette who served nine prison sentences during her campaign to get votes for women; in Carradale, Scotland. "General" Drummond led showy demonstrations while mounted on a white horse, once chained herself in front of 10 Downing St., once tried to wrap up two of her colleagues and mail them by parcel post to the Prime Minister...
...Quotas already assigned to the various regional alumnae groups will not be increased," he emphasized, and called for "an even more intensive effort on the part of alumnae, officers, and trustees alike. . . (to be) launched during the last decisive five months of the campaign...
...Four. Four major parties stand out in the Israel campaign...
...recent election campaign drew from Serb-descended Ivan still further proof of his versatility. One night in Tucumán he dashed off a poem, declaimed it at a Peronista meeting. Set to lively music, it rapidly became the party's official song...