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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In unanimously pledging the state's 76 convention delegates (half a vote each) to support Symington for the nomination until released, Convention Chairman William E. Kemp and fellow-Democrats hoped that they were starting a boom that would end in Symington's nomination-possibly on the third ballot...
Although Maryland's Millard E. Tydings, making a comeback try for his old Senate seat (24 years, 1926-50), defeated George P. Mahoney by a narrow 6,000 votes in the state's tightest senatorial primary (TIME, May 21), Mahoney won more state convention delegates. Last week, when...
Bloodiest victim of the purge was Baltimore's Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, who as national committeeman wielded the most power in a power-weak, faction-racked state organization. As the kingmaker who nudged Tydings into the race with Mahoney, D'Alesandro was booted out as committeeman, spanked...
Curiously, the debacle may benefit Tydings when he battles Old Foe John Marshall Butler, the Republican who defeated him, with Joe McCarthy's help, in 1950. To anchor power and brighten prestige, the dominant Mahoney Democrats must help Tydings. Aware of this, Mahoney at convention's end poured...
In this first-novel winner of the Houghton Mifflin award, Author Burdick gives a reverse twist to the cozy U.S. sociological convention that coarse, conservative fathers produce sensitive, nonconformist sons. It is a study of Mike Freesmith, whose father was a radical so militant he once smashed the family Christmas...