Word: charlestoning
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MIRIAM GALLAHER MARY LESLIE HARRISON Charleston, W.Va...
...weak Democratic flank-the left-wing support for Franklin Roosevelt from P.A.C. and the Communists. Tom Dewey marched ahead without so much as glancing at this temptingly vulnerable spot-until Franklin Roosevelt, needled by the jabs from Republican underlings, rose to disclaim his Communist support. Then, at Charleston, W.Va., Dewey let go hard against the President's "soft" disavowal. Perhaps Franklin Roosevelt doesn't like the Communists, said Dewey, but look how they like...
...Confidence. The Governor and Mrs. Dewey visited St. Patrick's Cathedral, where Al Smith's casket lay, then boarded the ten-car train for Charleston, W.Va. The Governor was in a confident mood. This mood the Governor carried into his speech that night. Clearly he felt that he had taken the Champ's hardest blows, and that his own steady body-punching was wearing his opponent down. The speech kept up that hammering of the Administration...
Ahead of him now lay the last month's crucial rounds, with speeches in Charleston, W.Va. (48 hours after Franklin Roosevelt), New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, and perhaps St. Louis...
When the South Carolina State Constitutional Convention assembled in Charleston in 1868, Gideon Jackson was one of 76 Negroes among the 124 members. Scorned by the sulking gentry, berated by the press, abysmally confused, most of them despaired of accomplishing anything...