Word: postcard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy has the full support of Tom Coleman's Wisconsin Republican machine, and he has plenty of money to spend on newspaper ads and postcard campaigns to the voters. Schmitt may benefit from Wisconsin's primary laws, which permit residents to vote in either party's primary. Although Democrats have a senatorial primary race of their own, between Lawyer Henry Reuss and former State Attorney General Thomas Fairchild, Schmitt's talkathon has attracted so much attention that many Democrats may move into the Republican primary, just for the chance of voting against Senator...
...morning papers. By 8 he is in his office-where King Farouk's picture has been ostentatiously turned to the wall-drafting DROs (Daily Routine Orders), interviewing local commanders, dictating replies to his morning mail (1,000 letters daily). Most of the letters he answers with a picture postcard of his troops or himself with the message: "Our movement succeeded because it was in your name and at your wish . . . [It] is from...
...biggest and most expensive accumulation of junk. It threw a pitiless light on the character of the man who had lived here until a few weeks before. Farouk's tastes sometimes seemed curiously childish, like those of a schoolboy who has never grown up beyond the French postcard stage. Above all, the palace gave the impression that someone had feverishly and indiscriminately crammed possessions into the vast rooms, to ward off loneliness, or perhaps despair...
...pipes, his blue and white porcelain and his solemn books. Three women secretaries wait on him. He seldom dictates answers to his mountainous correspondence, merely pencils a line across a letter which gives the cue as to what he wants the answer to be. He recently got a postcard which carried the arresting note: "Watch for a message which will change the face of the world." Hoover scribbled on it: "Watch for this...
Coulter borrowed $250,000 for new equipment, hustled business from such big shippers as Quaker Oats, U.S. Gypsum and Armour, reopened 20 freight offices across the country, and started informing shippers by postcard on every movement of their freight. He raised wages to standard rates, set up a management-labor suggestion committee, spruced up cabooses with new coats of paint, good toilet facilities, even outlets for electric razors...