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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GRADY L. MULLENNIX...
...announced as George L. Vaughn, a delegate from St. Louis and a member of the credentials committee; he wanted to submit a minority report. The majority had agreed to seat the Mississippi delegation. But the Mississippi delegation, Vaughn charged, intended to walk out if Harry Truman's civil rights program was incorporated into the platform and if Harry Truman was nominated. He recommended, therefore, that the Mississippi delegation "not be seated." He clenched his fist, yelling: "Three million Negroes have left the South since the outbreak of World War II to escape this thing. I ask the convention...
...This Infamous Program." In the convention hall, Southern oratory boomed out like cannon fire. In the front row, Oklahoma's doddering ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray beamed his approval, proudly recalled that "I'm the man who introduced Jim Crow in Oklahoma." Race-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith turned up as a spectator under the pseudonym of S. Goodyear. A group of Mississippi students set up a chant: "To hell with Truman...
...steel industry caved in last week under the pressure of labor's demand for third-round wage increases. To the 35,000 miners in the steelmakers' "captive" coal pits went the same $1-a-day boost John L. Lewis had wangled from other coal operators. Then U.S. Steel Corp., which had held out for more than two months against the wage-price spiral (TIME, May 3), gave Phil Murray what he wanted for his steelmakers: an average 13?-an-hour increase. Other steel companies followed U.S. Steel's lead, were expected to follow it also with price...
...that De Gasperi's government was implicated in Pallante's stupid crime. In a message from Moscow, where the protection of bigwigs is a highly developed science, Premier Stalin rebuked his Italian satraps for not taking better care of Togliatti. Crestfallen, they responded with an article in L'Unitá promising to purge themselves of "the timid, the opportunists, the dishonest and the provocateurs." They also disclosed that party membership had dropped by 50,000 (to 2,200,000) in the past year...