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...strategy has caught on. South Carolina Democrats cagily postponed selection of their electors until after the Democratic convention. Mississippi's Democrats, chafing under New Deal domination, promised a knockdown fight at their convention next week. Said one anti-Fourth Termer: "On the night of June 7 the name of Mississippi will be emblazoned on front pages all over...
...clerical and lay delegates), which met separately. Said one delegate: "Manning has his dander up and he has the Bishops cowed." There was talk of sending the Oldham resolution back to the Bishops, telling them to face the unity problem. But nothing happened. Chief reason: no Episcopalian wants a knockdown fight between Low-and High-Churchmen which would give the Church a bad press...
...other United Nations do, with what Congress decides. Pan Am's diplomatic Trippe is an old expert with Congress. But never has Juan Trippe been confronted by such a solid phalanx of airlines, such a potent battler as the U.S. Army. Pan Am is in for the knockdown, drag-out battle of its tumultuous career...
...Coast's major independent finance company. Last year Transamerica added three small war babies (a foundry, two aircraft-parts manufacturers) and a tobacco company (Axton-Fisher, Fleetwood cigarets) to its portfolio. But last week embattled old A. P. was back on his old stamping grounds, engaged in a knockdown, drag-out fight to gain control of another bank...
Early this month U.S. warships in the Solomons were ordered to prepare for a knockdown, drag-out fight...