Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerned, the test of how thoroughly TIME's convention staff did its job rests in its forecast of the balloting. Before the convention Domestic Bureau Chief David Hulburd's U.S. correspondents and stringers, including Washington Bureau Chief Jim Shepley's staff, had filed detailed information on each state's delegation, estimating its possible first and second ballot choices, describing the background of key delegates, etc. At the Convention this work was continued painstakingly to the point where, the day before the balloting, National Affairs Editor Otto Fuerbringer made some calculations and announced that Dewey ought...
...picked up some unexpected information at the close of the second ballot. When the Dewey total was announced, the delegates swarmed into the aisles, carrying Baker along with them until he swirled into a private caucus being held on the floor by heads-together Governors Kim Sigler, of Michigan, Jim Duff, of Pennsylvania, and Senator Raymond Baldwin, of Connecticut, who were trying to decide what to do about Dewey on the third ballot. Pinned against Sigler's broad back, Baker couldn't help overhearing the forthcoming strategy...
...Just before the payoff in Philadelphia, some brave experts made their final prophecies. Of 815 newspaper editors polled by the U.S. News, 417 expected Senator Arthur Vandenberg to get the nomination, 271 hoped he would. Jim Farley predicted "a deadlock between Dewey and Taft. If they get together, one of them will be the nominee. If they don't, you'll see Vandenberg in there...
...Alabama divorcee who sued Governor Kissin' Jim Folsom as the father of her two-year-old-announced that she was now "tired of the whole mess," and asked permission to drop the suit. "Your petitioner has come to realize," she explained after a few months' thought, "that she has been . . . used as a political tool...
Oklahoma, trying to cling to Jim Crow and still satisfy the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Sipuel case (TIME, Jan. 26), had set up a "separate but equal" law school for Negroes in Oklahoma City. Only one student-Theophilus M. Roberts, a waiter at the Oklahoma Club-enrolled. Negro leaders in the segregation fight boycotted the school (so did Ada Sipuel) and turned the heat on Roberts. Last week, he quit without ever having cracked a book. Said he: "I've bucked the Church, the fraternal organizations and the man in the street. The pressure...