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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bolt. Just what they hoped to accomplish-or how they would go about it-no one seemed to know. So far, only Alabama and Mississippi electors were pledged against Harry Truman. Other states might be persuaded to instruct their electors for the Thurmond-Wright ticket. But most office-holding Democrats would think twice before risking their federal and state patronage by aligning themselves with the irregulars. Said Arkansas' Laney pointedly: "Whatever is done must be done through and by the official Democratic organization in each respective state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Tumult in Dixie | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...More Questions? In London, ten-year-old Roy Scott asked his mother: "What's a thunderbolt?", got the answer as one hit the roof with a blinding flash. In Montrose, Colo., lightning knocked down Austin Baca, who arose just before a second bolt knocked him down again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough to heat a city the size of Wilkes-Barre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Double Whammy | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...race for Alabama's eleven presidential electors were all pledged to vote against Harry Truman or any civil-rights nominee. Of the leaders in the scramble for Alabama's 26 Democratic convention seats, virtually all were opposed to Truman's renomination, 13 were pledged to bolt the convention if a civil-rights plank were adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Local Skirmishes | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Student Employment Office offerings do not include openings for human guinea pigs in intoxication experiments, Director John W. Bolt announced yesterday, branding a recent Hearst newspaper article as "false, fantastic, an entirely without foundation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Employment Office Denies Offering Students as Professional Inebriates | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

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