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Mr. Akers vs. Park Ave
Wakefield, Dan | October 13, 1956 issue

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This article presents information related to the U.S. Congressional campaign in New York City. The Nation tried to find out how the grass-roots technique works in the asphalt jungle. Anthony B. Akers, Democratic candidate for Congress in Manhattan's Seventeenth District, forced his way through a grass-roots campaign up and down the asphalt jungles stretching from Park and Madison Avenues to Greenwich Village. The area is naked of general stores where natives roam around cracker-barrels and exchange homespun philosophies concerning the weather and politics, nor does it offer any of the usual settings associated with "grass-roots" campaigning.

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PRESIDENTS -- United States -- Election; POLITICAL campaigns; PRESIDENTIAL candidates; UNITED States. Congress; NEW York (N.Y.); UNITED States
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