Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money by writing slick-magazine love fiction (usually under the pen name of John August) and gets his prejudices off his chest, with none of the historian's usual judicial balance, in Harper's Magazine. A few weeks ago, in Harper's, he proposed a public campaign of passive rebellion against J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...Communism to fight the Marshall Plan; the second, in June 1948, disclosed that Tito was a Titoist. From 1949's meeting emerged a call for the "active fight of the revolutionary elements inside of the Yugoslav Communist Party as well as outside." This was taken to mean a campaign to break Tito by all means short of formal war. Mikhail Suslov, the highest Soviet official to attend (he is a member of the Orgburo, next echelon below the Politburo), was reported by returning Cominform delegates to have stated that the Red army itself would never attack Yugoslavia...
Late last night Gordon revealed that the 350 campaign volunteers had managed to bring in only $19,633.03. The main trouble we're having," Gordon said, "is getting 100 percent contact. Basketball games, hockey games, the "Messiah," are all keeping people out of their rooms," he added...
Discussing the present "cold war," the Vermont solon declared that a giant advertising campaign behind the Iron Curtain was the best way in which to avert another World...
Usually a trade association accomplishes little, but this has not been true of the Square merchants. In recent years the organization has been responsible for Christmas decoration, improvements in local traffic conditions, increased parking facilities, and a full-fledged publicity campaign aimed at attracting suburban buyers...