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When the love feast was over, Democratic State Chairman Thomas Jefferson Tubb seemed to think that Johnson and Mitchell had served just the right political victuals. Roared Tubb: "Those who say the Democratic Party in Mississippi is no more, let them listen and let them quiver...
...nearest thing in America is an Inauguration of a president, but even that event is too partisan and frequent to evoke the same fever. Rather the coronation resembles what would happen if Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson were to come alive, and at an appointed hour drive down Fifth Avenue before the massed memberships of the DAR, SAR and American Legion. But America, lacking a living human being to sum up its history, can only grope at understanding what the Coronation means to the Commonwealth...
After licking its election wounds in comparative quiet for six months, the Democratic Party began prowling and growling again last week. Items: ¶ In the Missouri legislature at Jefferson City, Harry Truman made his first speech since leaving the White House, promised that he would "be of some use to the Democratic Party in the future." Confining his jabs at the Republicans to the home front, he urged his hearers to "get behind the President" in foreign policy. ¶ At an Alabama League of Municipalities gathering in Montgomery, Senator John Sparkman loosed a full-blown political oration entitled "The First...
...federal judge overlooked one thing: the Federal Constitution. When the Constitution was framed, the question was gravely argued whether God should be in the Constitution or not, and after a solemn debate a Supreme Being was deliberately voted out of it ... Plywacki would be a U.S. citizen today if Jefferson were alive and could change places with Judge McLaughlin...
...last week Dr. Gibbon was satisfied at last with both the heart and lung sections of his machine. At Philadelphia's Jefferson Hospital, Cecelia Bavolek was anesthetized and Dr. Gibbon, with two assisting surgeons, laid bare her heart. They opened the two large veins carrying blood to it, and slipped in plastic tubes which drained the blood away to the artificial heart-lung. There, one pump drew in the blood. Another speeded it to an oxygen chamber, where it flowed over a set of metal grids like the plates in a storage battery. Electronic controls kept the flow rate...