Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Fair Dealer Claude Pepper had been thrashed, the next big question in Southern politics was: Will it happen to Fair Dealer Frank Graham in North Carolina...
Like Pepper, Graham was accused by his opponents of being too friendly to "socialistic" causes, too soft on Communism and overkindly to Negroes. But the resemblance could be pushed too far. Candidate Graham was no Claude Pepper; he had not gone junketing off to Moscow. He was not even a professional politician: he had been appointed to the Senate 14 months ago to fill out a vacancy. Most North Carolinians knew him better as a small grey man who for 19 years had been the able and respected President of the University of North Carolina. In his first campaign...
...Club meeting in Albemarle. After every meeting he stepped down from the platform to chat with the crowds, often delayed his schedule because he insisted on stopping off for roadside discussions. When he disappeared during the Wallace strawberry festival last week, his supporters knew just where to find Frank Graham: at the market, talking to denim-clad strawberry farmers...
Everywhere, in his plain, unangry way, he did his best to answer the charges leveled against him. He had only pledged support to the Fair Deal "in general," Graham protested. Though he was a member of the President's Civil Rights Committee, he was against any fair employment law based on compulsion, a position shared by many another conscientious Southern legislator. He was opposed to the Brannan Plan. He favored the present agricultural price-support program, said Graham. "In spite of some defects it has proved itself [by] bringing to a more equitable level the income of farmers...
Varsity: Davidson (Baldwin), Plissner (Graham), Graham (Hudner), Baldwin (unassisted...