Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holder of U.S. Patent No. 2,850,023, Idaho's one-term (1944-50) Democratic Senator Glen H. Taylor, was in Manhattan at the headquarters of the business based on his invention-a no-itch, nonskid toupee. As president of Taylor Topper, toupee-topped Taylor, a veteran campaign guitar strummer and vice-presidential candidate of the pink-tinged Progressive Party in 1948, features before-and-after pictures of his own pate in his advertising, is now trying to set up Taylor Topper franchises across the U.S. Last week he allowed: "I'm not doing a land-office business...
With apologies towards none and coyness for all, New York's Governor Rockefeller has hit the Presidential campaign trail. A few apologies are due, however, for the character of his efforts...
...however, one can expect a full blitz of winning Rockefeller smiles and dark "Nixon can't win" statements. Rockefeller has shown as governor that he can indeed courageously undertake necessary but momentarily unpopular actions. He has shown genuine leadership. Such leadership would be very welcome relief from the usual campaign inanities, and restore much of the lustre Rockefeller has lost behind his flashing smile...
Alarmed by the relative lethargy of local hygiene authorities and fearing for the health of their myriad readers, the editors of Cambridge's only breakfast table daily have unanimously decided that this afternoon and evening will be spent in a massive, dedicated campaign to conflscate all cranberries or cranberry sauces in the Boston area. Because this praiseworthy project will strike deeply at the paper's manpower, by supreme executive flat it has been declared that there will be no Crime tomorrow...
When Tadhg Sweeney was moved to an interior line position late in the campaign, a grim, unspoken battle took place in each game. The rugged Sweeney's stock in trade was charging the goalie--a perfectly legal maneuver, as long as the netminder does not have control of the ball. For a while in each first period, it was a question of whether the enemy goalie was going to yield to Sweeney's insistent pounding or play a charging game. In both the Brown and Yale contests, the goalie chose to hang back; each time, this was a vitally important...