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This week any Democrat in the U.S. could borrow Will Rogers' words and describe his own status with as much accuracy as humor. Seven months after the great defeat, the Democratic Party is disorganized, in debt and leaderless. Its condition is one that John Fischer, general book editor of Harper & Bros, and a worker in Adlai Stevenson's camp last year, has diagnosed as "intellectual anemia" and "almost total collapse of the . . . organization...
...great American labor organizations are leaderless. This morning the American Federation of Labor Executive Council will attempt to find a successor to the late William F. Green, and the Congress of Industrial Organization, after a preliminary meeting yesterday, will try to cut through bitter personal wrangling and select a president...
...York, the Democrats, confused and leaderless since Bronx Boss Ed Flynn became ill last year, still have not fixed on a candidate to oppose able Republican Senator Irving M. Ives. Since Averell Harriman has so far refused to accept the nomination, party leaders may have to fall back on Manhattan Borough President Robert Wagner Jr., son of the author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. In that case, the Republicans would have an advantage, but the Democrats may dump Wagner in favor of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. There is an argument among Democrats over whether Junior's name balances...
...have been more to the point, punctuating another above-the-battle lecture by the new Harry Truman, if the President himself did not still rate a large share of the blame for the perilous state of the nation's defenses. But many a good Democrat, glumly contemplating the leaderless, divided state of the party last week, realized with a sharp sense of loss just how much the party would miss the political touch of the old campaigner...
...Rahway, the convicts, leaderless and disorganized, held on. But the end was foreshadowed by another bedsheet hung from a window. It bore a plaintive, one-word message: "Water...