Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign oilmen sense great potential for Argentina and want to invest even more now that the nation's worst political crisis seems to be abating (see THE HEMISPHERE). As for the contracts, Dr. Illia last week was sounding less fiery as president-elect than he did on the stump. He was beginning to talk about renegotiation instead of outright annulment...
Leoni promises to carry on Betancourt's social and economic reforms, but he has little of Betancourt's magnetism. Dour, shrewd and sardonic, with little personal charm, he is more of a backroom politician than a stump-thumping vote getter. For that reason, many Venezuelans had hoped for a continuation of the joint front between A.D. and the Social Christian COPEI party led by Rafael Caldera, 47, an able and personable Caracas lawyer. A.D.'s insistence on Leoni, whom COPEI regards a party hack, diminishes the chance of a united democratic ticket against the left at election...
More than half the shows that were new last season will not return in the fall, including The Jetsons, Going My Way, The Gallant Men, I'm Dickens-He's Fenster, The Lloyd Bridges Show, Stoney Burke, Our Man Higgins, Stump the Stars, Fair Exchange, McKeever and the Colonel, Ensign O'Toole and Sam Benedict...
...elections, Kentucky had only once denied him victory at the polls. That was in 1938 when Happy, then Governor, tried to knock off one of the most popular Kentucky Democrats of all time: Senator (later Vice President) Alben W. Barkley. Thus this spring Happy confidently returned to the stump in his Bible-quoting, backslapping manner-and the crowds seemed to love him. Chandler had an enticing campaign promise: he would eliminate the 3% state sales tax on food, medicine and clothing...
...from businessmen. But in Washington last week 35 corporation heads-including Henry Ford II, U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, A.T. & T.'s Frederick Kappel and Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rocke feller-organized a "Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963." The committee's purpose: to stump the country on the President's behalf...