Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mauled by the heaviest labor-lobby attack since the 1947 "slave labor" campaign against Taft-Hartley, the 30-man House Committee on Education and Labor last week approved a labor-reform bill that was even milder than the Kennedy-Ervin bill sent over from the Senate more than three months ago. G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleck, coming from a White House conference, called the bill "a diluted version of a watered-down bill," thus fired the opening shot in the battle to force the Democratic majority in Congress to pass a strong bill or take the blame for none...
...reason soon became clear. One of the few Marxist heresies that Gomulka has not stamped out in his campaign to restore Communist authority in Poland is official tolerance of private farms. So stubbornly resistant are Polish peasants to collectivization that even now, after three years of Gomulka, cooperative farms total less than 1% of the nation's arable land. Would Khrushchev spoil everything with one of his off-the-cob remarks? Gomulka wanted no independent witnesses present when Nikita got to talking about agriculture...
...Khrushchev's next scheduled trip, to Scandinavia, things were obviously going to be worse. A campaign had already begun, supported by newspapers and prominent public figures, to give Khrushchev the silent treatment. Last week the Soviet Foreign Office called in the Moscow envoys of Sweden, Denmark and Norway to inform them coldly that Nikita had decided to cancel his Scandinavian tour. Originally, he had planned to talk up his proposal for a nuclear-free "Baltic zone of peace," an odd notion for him to peddle, since Russia alone of the Baltic powers has nuclear weapons. Obviously he would...
...Party, the Democratic government of Premier Menderes used tear gas to disperse the crowds that gathered to hear Inonu, and stood by while bands of toughs pelted the 75-year-old national hero with stones (TIME, May 11). Inonu's tour was part of a vigorous campaign by the Republicans for 21 vacant seats in the National Assembly scheduled to be filled in byelections this fall. Even if the Republicans won all 21 seats, they would not dent the Democrats' gerrymandered Assembly majority (410 to 170), but a good Republican showing might be an omen for 1961 general...
...make sure that all cancer victims who can be successfully treated get help, and to find ways of saving the half who are now doomed, NCI, a branch of the U.S. Public Health Service, is mounting history's most intensive campaign against a human illness. Its budget is skyrocketing: from $14 million when Dr. Heller took over in 1948 to $75 million in the fiscal year just ended, to a probable $100 million in the fiscal year just begun. It musters the efforts of 675 direct employees and thousands of independent researchers through grants and contracts...