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...competition; three of his four opponents-a 44-year-old Navy Commander named Nelson Levings, 55-year-old ex-Supreme Court Clerk Thomas Quitman Ellis and 66-year-old ex-Congressman Ross A. Collins-were campaigning hard. But Bilbo paid no heed. Instead he howled a warning: "The white people of Mississippi are sitting on a volcano. . . . We are faced with a nationwide campaign to integrate the nigger with the social life of this country...
After a year on the job, Harry Truman still spoke reasonably, but the people around the table with him paid him little heed. As his troubles piled around him like cars in a hopeless traffic jam, he got little help from the people, none from Congress -e.g., in such matters as the inequalities of the Wagner Act. Perhaps the concept of the political elite was growing. In Washington one Government labor adviser said: "The only solution to the coal strike is federal seizure, and then let the Government hand the miners and operators a contract." Other extremists, including Socialists with...
Poker-faced John Lewis paid no heed, still played his hand slowly, deliberately. To Washington this week he called the United Mine Workers 250 policy-committee members. It was a play he had frequently made to get automatic approval of his strategy...
...living with an ideal will have to demonstrate the sincerity of their humanitarian appeals by compromising that ideal for the present, and fighting for implementation of the report. If the Arabs are to hold even a whit of respect in the eyes of the world, they will have to heed the warning of the Committee: "We hope that . . . those who have opposed the admission of these unfortunate people into Palestine . . . will look upon the situation again, . . . at least that they will not make the position of these sufferers more difficult...
When 400,000 of the nation's soft coal miners walked out April 1, the U.S. public paid little heed. Dopesters in & out of Washington expected that John L. Lewis would whittle down his demands. The miners would probably return to the pits along about the third week...