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JAMES L. LUCAS
Seven Seats. The sour-faced look, the scolding tongue and the defeatist attitude were the more bootless because some Republican gains were not at all impossible in 1950. A party which made gains in the last three off-year elections, and polled 45% of the vote in the last presidential...
"I almost express a prayer about it," said Majority Leader Scott Lucas, ". . . that somehow we who serve here in the Senate . . . will harmonize and unite." He was talking about foreign policy, making his plea at the end of a day of bitter debate, of argument over who was responsible for...
There would be neither harmonizing nor uniting for a long time to come. Scott Lucas' plea was made in the teeth of a gathering hurricane. It was the beginning of the biennial Big Blow.
"The Power & Influence." The Big Blow moaned around Harry Truman's platform. No plank in it had been more loudly and insistently proclaimed than his plank on civil rights. An FEPC bill had been on the Senate calendar since October 1949. Scott Lucas had scheduled FEPC second on the...