Word: glens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles W. Chastain, 3rd, Plattsburg. Charles F. McCoy, Kansas City. Paul Luther Maier, Clayton. Glen McF. Tucker, St. Louis...
Only Senators Harry Cain of Washington and Glen Taylor of Idaho voted against it. Said Cain: "We're trying to do too much-too fast." Cried Taylor, running mate to Henry Wallace on the third party ticket: "When Wallace is elected President, we can reach an agreement with Russia and call off this whole armaments program...
Because he tried to enter a meeting hall through the "Negro entrance" (TIME, May 10), Idaho's Senator Glen Taylor was found guilty in Birmingham last week of disorderly conduct, assault and battery, and interfering with an officer. Taylor's lawyers argued that it violated the Senator's constitutional rights to bar him from any door because of his color, indicated that the fight would be carried to the Supreme Court. Judge Oliver Hall fined the Senator $50, sentenced him to 180 days in jail, suspended the sentence, then grumped: "This is a publicity stunt...
...Deep South last week, self-righteous bigotry made votes for Wallace. Barnstorming through Alabama, Senator Glen Taylor, Henry Wallace's running mate, dropped in on a Birmingham meeting of the Communist-front Southern Negro Youth Congress. It was a small meeting-one hundred Negroes and whites gathered in a seedy little Negro church in the heart of the Negro district. But policemen guarded the doors; others prowled the darkness outside. Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor had declared roundly: "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies...
...touching every state at least once, in his unprecedentedly vigorous campaign for the presidency. He lives in South St. Paul in a red brick, Tudor style, eight-room house which he built for $12,500 in 1938. A horseshoe is embedded in the cement doorstep, framing a footprint of Glen as a four-year-old. He does much of his work at home, has a Dictaphone in the library where he wrote his book, Where I Stand. For recreation he likes to hunt (pheasant, quail, deer), play chess, take Glen fishing, go for long walks alone. He has few close...