Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after he refused to fire three Catholics from his administration, he was opposed by the 10,000 members of Sam Houston Klan No. 1. The Klan started a campaign of vilification, denouncing him as a chronic drinker and gambler. A Baptist, Holcombe demanded that the Baptist Ministers' Association try him on the charges at a public hearing. Although nine of the 13 ministers on the "jury" were Klansmen, they cleared him after a one-day "trial" held at the Rice Hotel a week before election. He won the election. Three campaigns later, however, he was defeated. One reason...
Repeatedly during the campaign, President Truman had charged that the House committee's investigation of the Hiss-Chambers case was nothing but a red herring to divert the voters' attention from campaign issues. But in view of the shocking new evidence, reporters trooping into Truman's press conference last week wondered what he would...
...deal, in effect, indicated that Trippe might have been right in his campaign for a "chosen instrument" on the North Atlantic. Smith, who had fought Trippe's chosen instrument and demanded competition, now says: "The foreseeable volume of business does not justify the continuation of three competing U.S. carriers on the North Atlantic routes...
...response to far-flung dismay over last month's unsettling food episode, the Student Council began a campaign to investigate the University's methods of preparing undergraduate fare. To popularize the drive, the Council decided to devote its annual open meeting to a discussion of the food problem. Dean Bender was invited to answer questions and present the administration's viewpoint, and the entire affair was broadcast over WHRV. On the surface, this open meeting was an excellent idea--but as it was actually handled, it virtually smothered any organized campaign to do a thorough probing job into the University...
Over 76 percent of the Class voted, the biggest election turnout of the year. F. William Reeb 3L, secretary of the Union, added that the entire campaign in his opinion was a great success. The whole freshman class has been unified by the week of intensive electioneering, he stated...