Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only about 1200 donors have accounted for the $3,525,474 in the Fund, and ten benefactors have given nearly 80 per cent of the present total, Hunneman explained. "We are beginning a two-year intensive campaign to contact personally at least two-thirds of the 18,000 people interested in Radcliffe," he stated. The drive's goal is $10 million...
...speaker," answered the rebutting Democrat, "has lowered this debate to the level of low campaign mud-slinging. We are now familiar with that tactic. Look at the second highest man in our government today...
...ignore this barrage is impossible, since privacy has all but disappeared in China. One Shanghai factory manager during last year's "rectification" campaign spent four hours of every working day in group political discussions. And every Chinese city dweller lives under the baleful eye of a "street committee," most often run by a self-important woman. Wives are encouraged to write posters drawing attention to their husbands' shortcomings-and do. With depressing frequency newspapers throughout China carry reports such as the following: "Young Wei Kuo-chu, a student at Shin Tung High School, Shanghai, is cited and congratulated...
...slogan," cried Prime Minister Robert Menzies in his booming campaign voice, "is Australia Unlimited, and we pronounce it with confidence." But for all their leader's enthusiasm, it was with something short of unlimited confidence that the members of Australia's Liberal-Country coalition government approached last week's elections to the Senate and the House. In the nine years since he was swept into office on an anti-Socialist wave, the Prime Minister has given his country prosperity, has whipped rising inflation, boosted pensions, introduced a national health service, proved a stout friend...
...Justice Department won a major battle in its antimerger campaign. In Manhattan's U.S. district court last week, Judge Edward Weinfeld banned the merger of Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube, one of the biggest deals in industrial history. It was the first court test of a Government suit under the Clayton Antitrust Act since it was amended in 1950 to make it tougher...