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Facing more resistance, however, is the Administration's request to extend for another year some $530 million in excise taxes that were first levied at the beginning of World War II. Led by Wisconsin's John Byrnes, the Republican members of Ways and Means sought to reduce the...
Eight and five were the magic numbers. 85 years of life, 58 years of marriage, and James F. Byrnes marked off both mileposts a day early. The former Secretary of State under Truman obligingly posed with a pair of cakes. "This is a great world in which to live so...
By that standard, the outcome of last week's Wisconsin Democratic primary was worse than catastrophic. Reynolds won handily enough, collecting 511,000 votes. But Wallace made an astonishing show with 264,000. In the Republican primary an unopposed favorite son, U.S. Representative John Byrnes, got 301,000 votes...
To be sure, Republicans did cross over-as they are permitted to do under Wisconsin primary laws and as Democrats do when their own primary offers no contest. But there were indications that nearly as many Republicans last week jumped party lines to vote for Reynolds as for Wallace. For...
The Fears. Alabama's Wallace actually ran strongest in Democratic districts heavily populated by lower-middle-class, second-generation Poles, Italians and Serbs. These voters obviously were apprehensive that the Negro drive for equality would harm their own economic interests. Thus, in southside Milwaukee, and in comparable districts in...