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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator John Stennis, a Thurmond supporter (who says that he finally voted for Harry Truman), was another kind of legislator. The President could count on him for a fair share of his program, excepting, of course, civil rights. When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley. With grim significance, Stennis added: "I hope and expect him to appoint this gentleman...
...best friend from the period when he was indoctrinating himself in Communism...
...hand tie. He puts in regular office hours, and during the legislative session, sometimes worked an 18-hour day. During inauguration week, when he wore a white tie and tails for the first time in his life, he relaxed at a party by arguing at length with a friend that the atom bomb had made the tailcoat obsolete...
...York court last week officially upheld the right of an Episcopal bishop to fire a minister under his jurisdiction. As he listened to his friend, Justice Meier Steinbrink, deliver the long decision upholding the provisions of Episcopal canon law, old Rector John Howard Melish, 74, slumped forward in his seat and rested his forehead on his cane...
...political career was his abrupt dismissal from a customshouse job (after charges of dishonesty, incompetence and political corruption), by order of President Zachary Taylor. He was also widely known as the enthusiastic biographer of the inept and unlucky President Franklin Pierce. Hawthorne's praise of his friend Pierce was still ringing in men's ears when Pierce's administration collapsed in fiasco...