Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks to go before the filing deadline, party funds were down to about $300, and willing candidates were conspicuously absent. Then Muskie detected a budding of the grass roots. Says he: "Towns that had never held a Democratic meeting started calling state headquarters and asking, 'How do we hold a caucus...
Love from Harry. There was no genuine business before the national commit tee. The occasion was just an excuse to give the fall campaign a rousing sendoff, to hold informal clinics on the health of the party, and to coach freshmen candidates in the fine art of campaigning. Harry Truman, the party's oracle of optimism, was unable to attend the meeting (his doctor has ordered him not to do any politicking this fall). But Harry Truman thumped his first tom-tom, with a nostalgic give-em-hell letter to Democratic Chairman Steve Mitchell...
...Simca-Ford combine. French Ford shares rose from 56? last January to $1.87 on the American Exchange, while Simca stock went from $34 to $54 a share on the Bourse. Stockholders of Ford of France will get one share of Simca for each 23 shares they now hold. They will be entitled to a dividend of $2.14 paid on Simca stock last May (i.e., about 9? a share on Ford stock) and will also have a U.S. market for their stock when Simca is listed on the American Exchange in New York...
...warden of Alcatraz prison; of a liver infection; in San Francisco. Scholarly Penologist Johnston tamed riotous San Quentin during his 1913-25 tenure, had to abandon "reconstructive" penology when he took over in 1934 as first warden of Alcatraz, which had been deliberately established as a fortress to hold the meanest mobsters in gangdom (Al Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly...
Triple Threat. In St. Louis, in three robbery attempts in one month, John Wisdom Wallace 1) tried to hold up a grill with a toy pistol, fled empty-handed when a waitress threw a glass of water at him; 2) tried to rob a confectionery, fled empty-handed when the proprietor shot at him; 3) tried to hold up another confectionery, was tackled by 74-year-old Owner Arnold Barnes, who sat on Wallace until the police arrived...