Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporter wanted to know whether Marshall's resignation gave any support to an article in LIFE last week by Columnist Jay Franklin, who had written campaign speeches for Truman. Franklin (speaking for himself and specifically not for LIFE) had asserted that the President was preparing to swing away from the For-restal-Marshall-Lovett-Vandenberg policy to a softer policy toward the Russians. That article, said Truman sharply, is absolutely without foundation, in fact, in nearly every instance and every paragraph...
...campaign to pump federal money into the nation's schools and colleges hasn't exactly spread like a prairie fire, but it has given off enough heat to make the opposition perspire. That opposition has been chanting religiously that federal money means federal dictation and violation of the principles of states' rights. But even the most fervent standpatters cannot deny that American education is in far from perfect shape...
...Campaign to Standardize...
There is a less frenetic opposition to federal controls: some educators fear that administrative standards will be the opening wedge in a campaign of standardization all along the line that will gradually stiffen U. S. education into one unshakable pattern. They pass around the story of the French Minister of Education who proudly declared that at any given moment he could tell what page of what text-book each child in the country was reading. American education needs to be supported by national funds, these educators admit, but diversity and the chance to experiment are too important to lose...
...80th Congress passed a number of measures over the President's veto by virtue of alliance between all groups in Congress--there were a lot of Democrats in those two-thirds majorities. Mr. Truman's record up to last summer was so colorless that Republican leaders deemed a campaign unnecessary, thought they would lose less votes by avoiding commitments than they would attract by lavish promises. The President's margin of victory largely represents stay-at-home Republicans, who, confronted with a choice between no program and the Truman deal, avoided the dilemma by voting for neither...