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Liberal Salesmanship. With an eye to the general election due in the next year, the Liberals decided to appoint a party organizer, as well as public relations and press liaison officers. Need for a better job of selling the Liberal Party to the people was clearly indicated by the past year's record: except for the New Brunswick Liberal victory (won largely in an anti-Ottawa campaign), they have lost every major election test...
...cars, but newsmen counted less than ten. The ruckus over the investigation sent Tucker stock skidding from a June high of 4¼ to 2⅛, and there was further trouble ahead. In New York stockholders charged that the company was headed for insolvency, asked the court to appoint a receiver...
...send for Woodring and say to him, "Harry, ordinarily Dublin is not an important diplomatic post, but now it is, on account of the war. There will be a vacancy there and I wish to fill it with one of my very strongest men. I want to appoint you." ' The President did not seem to think Woodring would agree to this...
...inauguration, Louisiana's 72-year-old Senator John H. Overton-who had refused to back Earl in the election-died in Bethesda Naval Hospital. His vacant Senate seat gave the Longs an easy and unexpected means of strengthening their political hold on Louisiana. Governor Earl prepared to appoint a friend-probably a Monroe oil millionaire named William C. Feazel-on condition that the appointee would not run for the office after the interim term expired. In November, having achieved the Senate's 30-year minimum age, Nephew Russell would run, with every chance of election...
...asking to be taken back into the fold-"first steps toward union must be taken by the Protestant communions . . . Let each communion in its own way discuss the fundamental question: Is union so desirable that we are resolved to win it? If the answer is affirmative, then bodies can appoint . . . representatives . . . qualified, above all, by a life of Christian spirit...