Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since then the outlines of party purity have been blurred; in the matter of political spoils there are two schools of thought. One, led by bulky Bill Boyle, the Democrats' executive vice chairman, wants the rewards to go to the local leaders in each state who have been loyal through & through. The other is led by McGrath, who is worried about getting the Truman program through Congress, and wants to reward at least the milder Dixiecrats: Harry Truman needs their votes in Congress. Last week the two factions took their problems to the White House, accompanied by Vice President...
...Majority Leader John McCormack wrathfully replied to Hebert. What right did Hebert have to complain, McCormack wanted to know, since "he actively and openly supported a splinter party of the Democratic Party . . . Only through tolerance is he sitting here as a member of the Democratic Party...
...needed to get California politics tuned to its standard note of discord. It re-opened a party quarrel which had begun when Jimmy tried to scuttle Truman for Eisenhower. It also emphasized the rift between Jimmy and E. George Luckey, who as a faithful Trumanite had replaced Jimmy as leader of the state's Democrats...
...your April 23 issue, page 2, column 6, you speak of Donald Henderson, "American Labor Leader," as saying "American Labor will not support an imperialist war" or some such noble line. I wasn't surprised...
...weak central government that it could never properly govern. The Socialists were equally mad at their fellow Germans in the Christian Democratic Union, which was stringing along with the plans for a weaker government. At a Socialist meeting in Hannover last week, gaunt, one-armed, one-legged party leader Kurt Schumacher lashed out at the Western Powers as well as the Christian Democrats. "The Socialist Party," he shouted, "is a party of cooperation, not a party of submissiveness...