Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nazi-aping Nationalist government came to power last spring (TIME, June 7), it promptly launched an anti-Negro, anti-Semitic propaganda campaign of which Goebbels himself would have been proud...
Last week, Communist Kahn's campaign paid off: he became the first Communist ever elected to South Africa's Parliament, and his Negro electorate turned out energetically to give him an impressive majority (Kahn polled 3,780 votes; his nearest contender...
...tell fellow Southern publishers that if they don't spend money to get good editorial pages, they shouldn't blame their readers for not reading them. His own editorials (which he reads aloud to make sure they can stand it) get read. All through the 1948 campaign, the Gazette dad-blamed the Dixiecrats, stuck with Truman, "advised" voters to do the same. Arkansas did, by a 60% vote...
...Hearing for Henry. A teetotaler who bars liquor ads (but not beer ads) from his paper, Mister J.N. is a tolerant man. When Henry Wallace came to town during his campaign, Heiskell gave him free time on the Gazette's radio station to make sure that he got a fair hearing. (It was Wallace's own fault that his interview with Executive Editor Harry Ashmore made damning reading in next day's Gazette...
...Campaign. In Petersfield, England, Commuter Raymond Francis Baird paid a $42 fine for pulling the emergency-stop cord on a 60-m.p.h. train, asserted: "I have written to the railway ... I will pull all trains up when they are going too fast...