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The outgoing national chairman, Rhode Island's easygoing J. Howard McGrath, had never wanted to be beastly to the Dixiecrats. He thought that judicious use of patronage and cajolery would corral some Dixiecrat votes in Congress for Harry Truman's Fair Deal. It hadn't done any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Purges & Picnics | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Parade the Mace. The fact was, Lucas told his colleagues, that Congress would have to get over its easygoing ways. "The people hired us to stay here the year round, if necessary. It is not like the good old days, when Congress could meet, spend three weeks on the tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Year-Round Job | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

"Right now," said a Siamese engineer last week to TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan, "the Communists are digging quietly with shovels, instead of blasting with dynamite." The men with the shovels are mostly Chinese; for the past 20 years they have had a monopoly on Communism among the easygoing Siamese. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: The Land of Ihe Cheerful People | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Just about everything was the way Frank Boykin wanted it-lovable and liquid. The Vice President of the U.S., his wit gracious and his stories mellow, was master of ceremonies. Republicans and Democrats got up to tell what a fine fellow easygoing Sam Rayburn is, which came easy, for most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Love Feast | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Sullen, glint-eyed men collected in murmuring knots in the dusty, farm-town streets. Soon, the small angry knots had. become one 125-man mob pulling up at the Tavares courthouse in a 20-car caravan. Most of the mob stayed behind while its leaders walked up the steps to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Murmur in the Streets | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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