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...integrity, judgment and intelligence." Syndicated Columnist Dorothy Thompson announced she would vote for Eisenhower "against Truman and Trumanism." ¶Arkansas' third largest afternoon paper, the Pine Bluff Commercial, broke an 84-year-old precedent, came out for Eisenhower, explained to its readers that it wasn't "whole hog" Republican-only "just...
...development of natural resources, irrigation and power projects. Nonsense, said Eisenhower. Many of these projects had been started by the Republican 80th Congress, which Truman calls the "worst." The Republicans, said Ike, want to safeguard a measure of local control over the projects instead of surrendering all to "whole-hog Federal Government...
...trip through Iowa had Ike's staff forcibly restraining heady visions of victory. Crowds unequaled since Franklin Roosevelt's greatest days turned out at every step from Davenport to Des Moines. As the train passed down through the corn-hog country the farmers left their fields to wave and crane for a sight of the candidate. In Iowa City a crowd of 5,000 (out of a population of 27,000) got caught in a chilly rain but stuck out the discomfort until Ike had finished his talk...
...visitors saw a sight unique in Canadian papermaking. The wood supply clanking up the jackladder to be milled into paper was not the customary heavy, costly pine, fir and spruce; it was scraps of branches and tree tops and scrubby hemlock, waste wood that loggers call "slash" or "hog." Pounded by the mill's crushing stones, the scrap was being processed into newsprint as marketable as any produced from the most expensive pulpwood...
...striking feature in common: intense conservatism. The Democrats' eyes were turned back to 1932. A more popular character even than F.D.R. in Democratic Convention oratory was the sheriff foreclosing the old mortgage. The party mascot no longer seemed to be the donkey, but the 2?-a-lb. hog. The almost unanimous party line was contained in the phrase "20 years ago." The Democrats' hope is to stimulate the fear that the Republicans would (in the words of the official campaign song) "take it away." At times it seemed as if the Democrats had nothing to cheer but fear...