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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 900 delegates are expected to riot, parade, politick, and eventually nominate candidates for President and Vice-President and write a party platform at the 1956 Intercollegiate Democratic Convention on May 11-12, in Sanders Theatre.
I should like to correct the one vital error in your otherwise basically accurate account of last weekend's convention of the Young Democratic Clubs of Massachusetts. A platform which was strong in every respect save one was carried with virtual unanimity. The one exception was civil liberties, not civil...
The Democratic Party in Massachusetts has had an excellent record in civil rights. The late Maurice J. Tobin, former Governor and later Secretary of Labor under President Truman, was a prime mover in the creation of the state Fair Employment Practices Commission, while the Hon. James L. O'Dea, Jr...
It is only in the civil liberties field that the Democratic Party in this state has fallen down. Our defeat at the weekend convention was symptomatic of this. The closeness of the vote was encouraging, however, and we may well hope that it will not be long before the state...
Because the delegates to the national convention are unpledged, neither Stevenson nor Kefauver announced entering the Massachusetts contest. The Tennessee senator stepped out of the running recently when he urged his backers to write in for McCormack.