Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some politicos may get high blood pressure out of the 1960 campaign, but New York's U.S. Senator Kenneth B. Keating, master of well-turned satire, is not likely to be one of them. His aim (with his own term going on through 1964) is to get some fun out of it-particularly at the Democrats' expense. Last week, in a speech before a Republican fund-raising dinner in Danbury, Conn., Republican Keating reviewed "the Democratic Astronautical Missile Program, familiarly known to those of us in the scientific world as DAMP," offered his own tongue-in-cheek countdown...
...celebrated criminal lawyer or judge-averse to provoking a headline. New York, he said, needed 1) a state law to slow down the inflow of penniless migrants by requiring a one-year residence -normal in most states-before a newcomer becomes eligible for relief payments, and 2) a civic campaign to discourage migration to the city from "all parts of the country and the Caribbean." Puerto Rican children, he said, flashing a sheaf of papers, account for 20% of the juvenile delinquency in the city...
...they boast that they are erecting enough other buildings to give the capital a total of 398 million sq. ft. of new floor space-more than 14 times that of all the office buildings put up in Manhattan since the war. In a three-day cleanup campaign, 1,000,000 Peking residents claim to have collected refuse, dirt and mud sufficient to build a wall "three feet wide and 21 feet high, running 1,200 miles from Peking to Canton." And in an outburst of planned gaiety, the commissars had promised a brief bounty of meat, clothing, and children...
...weeks of the campaign the Labour Party seems to have found some profitable issues, notably pensions and high rents. They have promised every pensioner $1.40 more a week and have made broad promises of educational and medical improvements. The estimated cost of these welfare pledges is estimated at one billion dollars the first year, which Labour plans to acquire without increasing taxes...
...combining these domestic promises with aggressive campaigning, the Labour Party has stolen the offensive. Trying to dismiss such promises as "auctioneering," the Conservatives are looking for strength in the closing days of the campaign to the improved prospect of a summit meeting. The current truck strike should also benefit the Tories, as it refreshes the anti-union sentiment and reminds the voters of the close connection between the unions and the Labour Party...