Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clipping Coupons. Expressed in the hostility toward public spending were both longaccumulated annoyance at the bite of taxation and sharp awareness of the nibble of price upcreep. In response to a recent Los Angeles Times campaign urging readers to write to their Congressmen in protest against inflationary federal spending, more than 30,000 letters descended on California members of Congress. The Chicago Tribune printed handy "stop inflation" coupons, and more than 130,000 were clipped out by readers and mailed to Springfield and Washington...
...married a Jew, the Eagle said nothing, but the Beacon told about it in all too enthusiastic detail. When a girl staffer at the Beacon shot herself, the Eagle tried to associate a Levand with the case. A rumor that a Murdock relative was homosexual caused the Beacon to campaign for an ordinance to require the registration and fingerprinting of every pervert in town. So deep is the feud that it extends to the personal relationships of Eagle and Beacon staffers, and for that reason Wichita has no press club...
Last week Chrysler's fast-selling import from France, the Simca, joined the critical chorus. Aiming at foreign rear-engine cars as well as Corvair, it launched a massive ad campaign proclaiming "the advantages of front-engine cars over rear-engine cars.'' Among them: "Cornering is better . . . more luggage area . . . greater driving stability ... To relax your grip on the steering wheel [of a rear-engine car] at highway speed would be dangerous...
More serious have been the charges that Nixon is unprincipled, particularly in campaign attacks on opponents. Mazo feels that at times Nixon has "resorted to malignant innuendo"; yet he also makes it plain that Nixon has said no more than other politicians in the heat of a campaign. Possibly Nixon gets blamed more readily because the smooth precision of his speeches always suggests that he knows precisely what he is saying, while the snarls of a Harry Truman, for instance, are often ascribed to a sort of folksy hot temper. Yet Nixon has quite a temper of his own. Once...
...event, Reporter Mazo has already made one surefire contribution to campaign literature. Rocky and Nixon, he recalls, used to attend National Security Council meetings, and after one particularly critical session, Nelson Rockefeller wrote the Vice President: "You were superb. You have no idea of what your understanding, integrity, courage and leadership mean to so many...