Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find the signs personally distasteful, from a campaign and from an aesthetic point of view," City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser said...
...Indianapolis. The son of a tenant farmer, Capehart made a fortune selling jukebox equipment and got into politics after organizing a 1938 "cornfield convention" of 20,000 Republicans. As Senator, he supported farm subsidies and helped establish the Small Business Administration. An enthusiastic McCarthyite, Capehart staked his 1962 senatorial campaign on a tough anti-Cuba stand ("invade or blockade") and lost narrowly to young Birch Bayh when President Kennedy's embargo of Cuba took away his thunder...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--Backers of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) Saturday began a state campaign to draft the senator for nomination as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate...
Organizers of the campaign said Carter has failed to convince the people of his ability as a leader. They said they fear Democrats could lose not only the presidency but also control of Congress and state legislatures if Carter were to head the Democratic ticket...
...intend to run a positive campaign. This is not a 'dump Carter' effort in any sense of the word," E.E. "Bo" Edwards, Nashville attorney who is leading the draft Kennedy campaign, said Saturday. Edwards was the state coordinator in Kentucky for Robert Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign, and he was treasurer of Carter's 1976 Tennessee campaign for the Presidency...