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Monday. At the first night session they rammed through (by voice vote) a resolution requiring all delegations to sign a "loyalty pledge," promising to use "all honorable means" to get the convention's nominees on the ballots in their states (TIME, July 28). This was designed to make it...
While Governor Byrnes was being harried with questions on the loyalty pledge, smoke and flames rose from among the tightly packed crowd of delegates. In short order, the firemen put out the flames. Jimmy Byrnes rose to say dryly: "I want to announce that I did not set the place...
That night, 3,400 Southerners paid $50 apiece to squeeze into four dining rooms of the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel for Dick Russell's opening campaign fund dinner. Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge and three neighboring governors-South Carolina's James F. Byrnes, Florida's Fuller Warren...
James F. Byrnes, who put the blast on Harry Truman in an article in Collier's last week. Byrnes had wanted to include a letter from the President attacking columnists, reported O'Donnell, but Collier's was afraid the columnists might sue for libel. So O'...
As for the book itself, it has many shortcomings, most of them inherent in the problem it attacks. The material is disconnected, since it consists merely of excerpts. It was winnowed out of countless papers and conversations, and presumably gives a one-sided favorable impression of Truman. Mr. President does...