Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maybank said that his state would follow Virginia's lead. His colleague, Senator Olin Johnston, proposed that the Democrats draft Secretary of State George Marshall. Arkansas' Senator John McClellan came out for Harry Byrd. Even at the price of defeat, Georgia's Senator Walter George looked forward to a party shakeup after the election, with Southerners taking a stronger grip...
Only one Southern stalwart came forward to sound a sober warning to the secessionists. He was no warm friend of Harry Truman's. But Florida's Senator Claude Pepper thought Virginia's ballot plan a "brazen scheme," the effect of which would be to give the electoral voting power "to a little group of party bosses...
...Guantanamo, the President rode around the base in an open car, stopped to greet some 200 children who welcomed him by singing America. One, a freckle-faced twelve-year-old boy, stepped forward to present a scrapbook about the base's school. After a brave start, the boy flubbed his long-rehearsed speech. Harry Truman, who knows how it feels to stumble over lines, leaned down and whispered: "Never mind, son." The boy beamed...
...white bungalow at the U.S. submarine base. He thumbed through newspapers, which headlined his troubles in the South. Even while he was away he had enraged the South's white-supremacy bloc by visiting the Virgin Islands' Governor William Hastie, a Negro (who wore a button proclaiming: "Forward with Truman...
...every afternoon. The virtue of TIME'S weekend summary of the news was that it seemed realistic to those who knew that they had two or three more years of the same dreary, bloody business ahead of them. TIME got to be a sort of bible in the forward areas because TIME seemed to know what it was talking about...