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Some important Southern leaders say that they might "go fishing" on election day. One such is Texas' Governor Allan Shivers who is deeply disturbed by the Democratic stand in favor of federal control of tidelands. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd has not announced his support of the ticket. The prospect: little help for Stevenson from Byrd...
...nomination, the Trib said he "can't win," is a "poor creature" manipulated by "Wall Street . . . Buster Dewey the cheap trickster, and Lodge the New Dealer, who pretends to be a Republican." When the Democrats came to town, the Trib had some kind words for Senators Byrd and Russell. It fancied the idea of supporting a Democratic presidential candidate-for the first time in its 104 years-if either of the Senators was nominated. But after Stevenson was named, the Trib began to come to its senses, even though the colonel still speaks of Ike and Stevenson...
...campaign manager, Michigan Senator Blair Moody. Michigan Governor Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, a group which North Carolina's old (82), formidable former Governor Cameron Morrison called "half-educated boys." Against them were such fierce old eagles as South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes and Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, who were politicians before Roosevelt & Co. could spell "caucus...
...divided them was "white supremacy," and "white supremacy" is no longer a live slogan in the U.S. One of the Democratic Convention's most important achievements was to make this fact clear. Few delegates really wanted to force the South into a walkout. Said Virginia's Harry Byrd: "We'll just sit here, and maybe they'll have to throw...
When Colonel Miller filed against him in the senatorial primary this year, Harry Byrd set out to regain lost ground-particularly in cities like Norfolk and Richmond, which have expanded and become more liberal since the war. He waged the most energetic campaign of his life, bitterly attacked Harry Truman, and denounced Miller both as a Trumanite and (almost as appalling) a former Rhodes Scholar. When the vote for 1,691 of 1,783 precincts was in last week, Byrd had run up a lead of 87,000-the biggest contested primary margin in Virginia's history...