Word: devere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberal Union will not support Gov. Dever for reelection this fall. In a four-hour session last night, the group decided to reverse its 1948 and 1950 endorsements of Dever and take no part in the gubernatorial race...
...Liberal Union supported Dever in 1948, but feeling against him has been high ever since the Governor signed the McCarthy-Dorgan "anti-subversive" bill last fall. The group had presented the Governor a petition against the bill signed by one thousand students, only to find that Dever had already signed the bill in secret...
...H.L.U. member, who desired his name be withheld, said he would resign from the organization if it backs Dever this year. Another, Martin H. Needler '54, called Dever "a bad choice between two evils," and suggested the group endorse neither he nor his opponent, Christian A. Herter...
Stanley Tobin '53, Liberal Union member who is also president of the Young Democrats, says he will urge support of Dever...
...Dever Victory Headquarters" consists of two spacious floors in the plushly modern Burdett Secretarial School. In the main room, about 100 by 50 feet, around fifteen people wandered about or scribbled postcards telling "All good Democrats" to register. All about, the flexible-bracket fluorescent lamps hummed busily. In the adjoining room, a cluster of men reclined in leather chairs watching baseball on a television set. We consulted with the Publicity man's secretary who promised to swamp us with handouts as soon as the printing presses began grinding them...