Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, at a meeting in the Union last night, a group of freshmen formed an organization tentatively called the "Freshman Freedom Forum," which will help canvass the Yard dormitories for the Combined Charities Drive...
...Shepherd began booming last month a purely imaginary historical novel-a "turbulent, turgid, tempestuous" composite of "Frank Yerby, Kathleen Windsor and Norman Vincent Peale." The book was first conceived as a hoax to shatter the faith of day people in their own "book lists." Shepherd urged fans to canvass shops for the nonexistent title I, Libertine, ascribed to "nonauthor than" Frederick R. Ewing, "well-remembered for his BBC talks" on 18th century erotica. By noon next day, one Manhattan store had received some 30 orders. The title mysteriously appeared on Boston's list of banned books. Enterprising Publisher...
...development that foretold the final result. The development can be weeks before the delegates assemble or in an obscure room during convention week. Almost never does it happen before the TV cameras. The key to good convention coverage is to move in early with an experienced staff and canvass scores of sources day and night...
...family and home and the political issues of the day. The state-by-state roll calls will be over. (To keep up the TV pace, delegations that ask to be polled will be temporarily bypassed on the roll call while the chairman's aide conducts an off-camera canvass.) The convention will have roared with cries of "The man who ..." Then, finally, will come Harry Truman's big moment...
...Vanderburgh County's (and Indiana's) choice for President was Dwight Eisenhower. A final canvass in Vanderburgh County, completed five days after TIME went to press, gave Ike 15,223 votes, Kefauver 12,572. The figure on "Democratic ballots" refers to the total votes cast in a congressional race involving local issues and seven candidates; many voters failed to indicate presidential choices...