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...peering over the top of the uncleared table. When he was introduced as "someone who needs no introduction -everybody's friend," he leaped to his full 5 ft. 4 in. of height. In the gravelly voice of a baseball umpire near the end of a doubleheader, Joseph Terrence Ferguson, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Ohio, addressed himself to the farmers of Radnor and neighboring towns...
...Taft says the unions are taking over the Democratic Party," he roared. "He lies and he knows he's lying. He says that I'm a controlled candidate. He is controlled by the big money interests and he can never be a free man." Candidate Ferguson fanned the air with his short, muscular arms. "I'll be the freest man," he promised, "that ever treaded the U.S. Senate...
...Sneezed At. Candidate Ferguson sat down amidst applause. He shook some hands and drove off in his 1947 Buick. The following day and the day after, he would bob up in other meetings, often unannounced, to fire the same kind of political birdshot. In such a manner last week, 58-year-old Joe Ferguson, son of a coal miner, was hunting "Mr. Republican" himself. Joe was the cast-iron spearhead of the campaign to get Robert A. Taft out of the U.S. Senate...
...Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) the Court had stated that since separate facilities were not necessarily unequal, segregation did not violate the fourteenth amendment. While the judges did not reverse the 1896 decision, they did declare that the facilities provided by Texas and Oklahoma in both cases were "unequal." So, although the Court did not re-examine the "separate but equal" doctrine, most observers felt that it would never again find separate facilities equal...
...general, the Journal frowns on sensationalism. Says President and Editor J. Donald Ferguson: "Circulation will balloon up just as well when it rains and people buy papers to put on their heads as when you dig up a good scandal, and the boost will last just about as long...