Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marines. After Mike won, a checkup showed that he was 27, that he never went to the University of Michigan, and that he served only 23 months in the Marines. "I didn't mean anything wrong." Mike explained. "It was just one of those things in a campaign. I just needed some real material to beat Pratt...
Once in office Fibber Elliott kept his eye on Mrs. Lee and wondered what to do next. True to her campaign promises, the new mayor cleaned out Portland's basketball and hockey-betting hangouts, had her cops round up prostitutes, close Chinese gambling dives. She even sent her police out to pick up all the slot machines, including those in such private hangouts as the Portland Press Club, which made $50,000 profit on them last year...
...along. Cachin went to Italy bearing the word. Sure enough, the evening after Cachin arrived, Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti in a speech at Bologna said "complete" collaboration between East and West was possible. He denied Russia was planning a "revolutionary war." The same day the Reds halted their "campaign of noncollaboration" in the factories. Reports circulated that woolly-minded Giuseppe Saragat was considering a new "unity" bloc between his recently anti-Communist group of Socialists and the Nenni (pro-Stalin) Socialists...
Women in Purdah. Israel's first election campaign rumbled along in good ward-political style. Politicians fought each other tooth & nail for the limited campaign facilities. Parties accused each other of renting all the public halls in Tel Aviv although they had no intention of actually using them; one party was accused of trying to catch the Rumanian immigrant vote by leasing Tel Aviv's only Rumanian printing press...
Through the last weeks of the campaign, Israeli cities were full of blaring loudspeakers and glaring posters. Café campaigners revived an old joke: "Eight men were stranded on a desert island. The two Britons did not speak to one another for six months because nobody introduced them. The two Scotsmen formed a Robert Burns Society. The two Irishmen killed each other fighting. And the two Jews organized five political parties...