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...Anti-Fourth Termers gasped, as they had at the first mentions of Terms III and IV. But many other citizens got a little uneasy. Some remembered, even, that in 1940 any suggestion that a third term might lead to a fourth term was flatly and indignantly denied. Said Franklin Roosevelt, campaigning in Cleveland: "There is a great storm raging now. . . . And that storm ... is the true reason that I would like to stick by these people of ours until we reach the clear, sure footing ahead. We will make it-make it before the next term is over. . . . When that...
Texas Democrats went all the way. New Dealers never had a chance. Months before the Democratic state convention, smooth, affable George A. Butler, a Houston lawyer who heads the Democratic executive committee, had politicked all over Texas lining up anti-Fourth Term delegates...
...congratulatory slap on the back, Dan Moody accidentally swallowed the butt, rushed to the drugstore for sodium bicarbonate.) Up rose Alvin J. Wirtz, red-hot Fourth Termer, to propose the name of onetime Governor James V. Allred. His voice was barely heard above the shouting. When the vote came, anti-Fourth Termers had won, 940-to-774. On a second vote, to pledge Texas electors absolutely to vote for the Democratic nominee, Fourth Termers took a worse drubbing...
...Merrily We Roll Along." In the Senate chamber, while the organist struck up Merrily We Roll Along, the anti-Fourth Termers settled down to business with a whoop & a holler. Without debate, they rushed through resolutions demanding that the Democratic national convention: 1) seat their delegates; 2) restore the old two-thirds rule; 3) go on record for white supremacy. All three resolutions had a powerful snapper: should the Democratic national convention refuse these Texas demands, then Texas' 23 electors will not consider themselves bound to vote for the Democratic Presidential nominee...
...strategy has caught on. South Carolina Democrats cagily postponed selection of their electors until after the Democratic convention. Mississippi's Democrats, chafing under New Deal domination, promised a knockdown fight at their convention next week. Said one anti-Fourth Termer: "On the night of June 7 the name of Mississippi will be emblazoned on front pages all over...