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...that young Joe, a bright, confident boy and a natural leader, would go into politics and in due course become President of the U.S. As a 25-year-old member of the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic Convention of 1940, Joe Jr. footnoted political history by being the last holdout for James Farley, against Roosevelt's third term...
...going on in every state, in every local issue. He's tough and decisive and determined. I marvel at his organizational ability. Openmouthed wonderment was precisely what the pilot of the bandwagon wanted, for the time was at hand to convince the bosses of the big holdout states that they would be left far behind at the Los Angeles convention if they did not scramble aboard. But there was no stampede. In New York, the delegates' caucus at Albany handed Kennedy a predicted minimum of 87 out of 114. In Manhattan, Kennedy himself paid a call...
...Stevenson's closest advisers will urge him to endorse Kennedy. They argue that support from Stevenson might be enough to put Kennedy well ahead of the pack, soften the feud over religion. Then, if Kennedy should falter at the convention, Stevenson could not be blamed as a holdout, and Kennedy, in turn, might throw his votes to Stevenson...
...million; Pittsburgh's $100 million plant opened last year. With smaller cities often taking the lead, the total outlay mounted past $500 million. Today, treatment plants serve 8,400,000 residents (total basin pop. 20 million), and new plants will soon serve another 900,000. Sole city-sized holdout: Huntington, W. Va. (pop. 93,000), which wants to dawdle with its sewage plant until...
Where It Hurts. In Seisdon, England, Town Clerk Arno Romer Baskett explained how overdue rents will be collected from holdout tenants: "We will seize their television sets...