Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The rumbling that woke up the 1958 congressional election campaign last week was the sound of short-lived but sharp public argument between the President and Vice President of the U.S. The argument : Is the Administration's handling of foreign policy-and specifically the Quemoy-Matsu crisis-a proper...
The President headed west from Washington on his 5,284-mile congressional-election tour in such a cheerful, eupeptic and thoroughly nonpolitical mood that one reporter called it a "Give 'Em Hello Campaign." His first stop: the National Corn Picking Contest on the 400-acre Lumir Dostal Farm, ten...
All the same, Harry Truman had a chilly warning to give, based on his 1948 lesson to the Republican Party that straw polls and cocksureness can upset any campaign. "I find only one thing wrong with Democrats today," he said. "They are suffering from Deweyitis, which is the worst disease...
Flood of Registrations. Crosscurrents swept in and out of the whole issue of labor bossism as the 1958 election turned its final leg. In the unionized East, with the exception of outpost Vermont, most candidates carefully paddled clear of the rip tides. But westward from Ohio, the revelations from Senator...
National G.O.P. leaders, who had once hoped that the unsavory record of labor racketeering would rub off on labor-oriented Democrats, all but gave up trying to hang failure of the Kennedy-Ives labor bill on the Democratic 85th Congress. No less a campaigner than Vice President Nixon warned that...