Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opposition to the Socialists had been growing steadily for ten years. Their parliamentary majority had declined. As 1949's campaign got under way, Labor candidates faced dissatisfied audiences that insistently harried them with heckling questions. How much more was Socialism going to cost? Why were government ministers riding in U.S. limousines while ordinary folks couldn't get cars? An Auckland newspaperman called it "the revolt of the guinea pigs...
President Juan Perón launched a new and bitter campaign last week against Argentina's leading newspapers, La Prensa and La Nación. He announced that he would prosecute them under his new law of "disrespect" (TIME, Oct. 10) for reporting a speech in which he was accused of enriching himself while in office...
...campaign, backed by Lutherans, Episcopalians, and many Jews who feel that Christmas should be restored to its religious meaning, will stress the remaining weeks of Advent as a time of preparation by penance and prayer. Said Mrs. Fred J. Vollmar, chairman of the St. Boniface Archconfraternity, last week: "We must become more Christ-minded about Christmas . . . We have given prominence to a worldly Santa Claus-who has no resemblance to St. Nicholas-and have entirely left out the thought of the birth of the Savior...
Like many another College listener, Kyser's wife, pretty ex-Model Georgia Carroll, once protested that the quiz questions were too easy. (Sample, flubbed last week by a contestant: "What presidential candidate wore a brown derby and used Sidewalks of New York as a campaign song?") Grudgingly, Kyser agreed to try some tougher ones. "It was a mistake," he recalls. "We had the dullest show in the world. The minute you have anything harder than a subject, predicate and question mark, they can't answer them...
Author Clare Barnes Jr., art director for the big Manhattan advertising agency of Benton & Bowles, got his idea while looking through a batch of animal photographs for an ad campaign last summer. In his search he was repeatedly reminded of folks around the office. Once he got the Zoo idea, he looked at thousands of zoological portraits before he tackled Doubleday with a choice lot. Enthusiastic but careful, the publisher tried it out in a real white-collar city, insurance capital Hartford, Conn., where Zoo went like animal crackers during a kindergarten recess. Published on July...