Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desk, the President made formal and final the commitment that they and millions of other people had at first hoped for and had then expected through many anxious weeks. The President told Vice President Richard Nixon, Presidential Aides Sherman Adams and Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, and Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall that he would accept a second term if the party and the people wanted...
...last fortnight, conferred endlessly with associates, and paid minute-to-minute obeisance to the jangling summons of his telephone (in one normal day, recently, he received 94 incoming calls, not counting interoffice conversations). At 10:52 a.m., the precise moment when the President's press conference broke up, Leonard Wood Hall, chairman of the Republican National Committee, fastened a gold-colored Ike pin on his lapel and made a prediction. "This," he said earnestly, "is going to 'be one of the hardest campaigns we ever fought. Now that Ike has done what he has done...
...rose to power on their own efforts during the long Democratic years when the Republican National Committee could give them little or no help. They have maintained themselves in office by do-it-yourself methods, and they feel little allegiance to the National Committee or to Leonard Hall...
...100th birthday of the Republican National Committee, top Presidential Aide Sherman Adams and G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall celebrated at a Washington party, munched morsels of cake, in their high spirits apparently forgot to remove the candles from their goodies...
...this point a Christ Church parishioner named Leonard M. Sive took over. Sive, an advertising man, had long been wondering what could be done with consumer appeal in church advertising instead of the customary institutional copy. In collaboration with Rector Morris Arnold he worked out a series of two-column, 12-in. display ads for Cincinnati newspapers. Each ad carried a picture of Christ Church's Rector Arnold, and the invitation to "come in and talk it over." Sample headlines: "DO YOU FEEL NOBODY NEEDS YOU?" "IS IT PROPER TO JOIN A CHURCH TO MEET PEOPLE?" "DO YOU REALLY...