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...National Committees had picked the place and the date (Republicans, who traditionally meet first, on June 21; Democrats on July 12), had apportioned convention delegates among the states. The rule of thumb: each state sends two delegates for each Representative and each Senator in Congress.† Republicans give a bonus of three delegates to those states which voted Republican in 1944 or 1946; Democrats give a bonus of four. The District of Columbia, territories and possessions get two to six delegates each. Total delegates: Republican, 1094; Democrats, 1234. (Some states split their Democratic delegates into one-half votes, thus increasing...
...when they come in. AVC is a supporter of action through the U.N., a strong Marhall Plan supporter, and domestically, a backer of such measures as the Taft-Eilender-Wagner housing program and the recent subsistence pay raise for vets. On the negative side, they have opposed a Federal bonus and the Taft-Hartley labor bill...
...days of tumult and picketing, striking clerks, pages and elevator operators returned to their jobs on the New York Curb Exchange. The members of Local 205, United Financial Employes, A.F.L. had won little: the Curb agreed to change its pre-strike offer of a temporary 10% cost-of-living bonus to a straight 10% wage raise, but it did not grant demands for a union shop and it insisted on a two-year contract...
...Atomic Energy Commission offered a bonus of $10,000 to anybody who could find a new U.S. deposit of high-grade uranium ore-payable upon the delivery of 20 short tons...
With the drop in trading, the exchanges argued that that was all they could afford. To pay even the bonus, said Curb President Francis Adams Truslow, he would probably have to dig into the Curb's cash reserve. Keefe threatened to strike, shrewdly waited till the market was on its way up-and brokers had their hands full with heavy trading-to call his members out. But even with the lusty help of the seamen, he fell far short of crippling the citadel of speculation...