Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done it under almost impossible circumstances. He took over the leadership job after the worst Republican defeat since the sunflower campaign of Kansas' Alf Landon went to seed in 1936. Dwight Eisenhower, barred from seeking a third term, looked like lame-duck soup to the lopsided Democratic majority in Congress. House and Senate Republicans were fighting among themselves, seemed incapable of forming a line of defense against the war-dancing Democrats...
...party discipline is stricter than at any time since the regime of Illinois' tough, pink-bearded "Uncle Joe" Cannon (1903-1911 as Speaker). Sometimes Halleck goes too far. He admits that more than one Republican has been forced into line under threat of being cut off from party campaign funds. At least one Republican, pushed beyond endurance, had to be restrained from swinging on Halleck. Charlie Halleck recognizes the problem. "Some guys say I drive too hard," he says. "You've got to know when to let up. You can go too far, though, and I have...
Fight the Whites. Leader of the victorious P.A.P.-and Prime Minister-elect -is fiery Secretary General Lee Kuan Yew, 36. A wealthy, golf-playing Singapore Chinese of the third generation, who gained a prized "double first" in law at Cambridge University, Lee campaigned in shirtsleeves to "restore the dignity" of Asians and to "fight against the white man." He saluted his election triumph as "the liberation of the poor." His party's first act, he said early in the campaign, would be to release the Communist-liners now in custody. He also demanded eventual closing of Britain...
Shed the Reds. Despite such outbursts, the British are convinced they can work with Lee-or at least that they have to. "I am a non-Communist," he proclaims, and before the campaign ended, speaking more moderately than at the start, he asserted that the worst threat to the new state of Singapore might come from Communist guerrillas trying to sneak over from the Malayan jungles. The British, who will retain control of Singapore's defenses and foreign affairs, are resigned to the political necessity of releasing the imprisoned P.A.P. Communist-liners. But Singapore is no longer so fearful...
After five years, the Prudential Insurance Co. last week won a major victory in its campaign for variable annuities, a new type of insurance designed to protect policyholders against inflation. Under the plan, annuity payments vary according to the price of common stocks in which premiums are invested, a sharp contrast to conventional annuities, which guarantee fixed payment based on traditional insurance company investments, such as mortgages...