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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At week's end Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, commerce committee chairman, announced that he hoped his committee would take action on the confirmation of Lewis Strauss this week. At that point, 111 days had passed since President Eisenhower had sent Strauss's nomination to the Senate-two days...
Can a Roman Catholic be elected President of the U.S.? Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, is the acknowledged front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 and intends to push the question to a positive answer. Last week, after sampling the opinions of 9,000...
In Harrisburg's barn-big Zembo Temple, where 6,000 Democrats had shelled out $100 each for Johnson, roast beef, ice cream and the 48-piece Hegeman String Band, the reception was sweetly tender. The Hegeman String Band strummed Deep in the Heart of Texas. During the preliminaries, beaming...
Flying on to Boston with wife Lady Bird Johnson for one of 66 Democratic celebrations honoring Harry Truman's 75th birthday (see PEOPLE), Lyndon landed carefully. Massachusetts, after all, is the nesting ground of a formidable front runner named John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Senator Kennedy met his majority leader at...
Explaining their attitude, Southerners expressed fears of a Catholic spoils system, with "Catholics getting all the jobs." Other reasons were vague ("I just don't understand Catholics") or fantastic ("I wouldn't want the Pope running the country for us").