Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even while Stevenson's lines were being repaired, other lightning rods were functioning. The Platform Committee, headed by Massachusetts' Congressman John McCormack, an old hand at managing political compromises, steered carefully clear of showdown situations. McCormack appointed a Civil Rights Subcommittee composed mostly of moderates on both sides. And he got some unexpected help in his work from Harry Truman, who told the committee that he thought the 1948 and 1952 civil-rights planks were just about right...
...Then McCormack's hand-picked moderates on the subcommittee retired to hammer out the plank. No one familiar with the unpredictable Democrats was willing to guess what shape it would take. But one thing was certain: civil-rights thunder was going to continue to mutter over the Democrats for a long time to come...
CHARGE ACCOUNTS AT SEA are being tried aboard Moore-McCormack Lines luxury ships Argentina and Brazil. First-class passengers may charge up to $2,000 in shipboard tips, services and purchases (including bar tabs), pay later...
...McCormack. After the first round, at least 30 should go for Stevenson. As Stevenson comes within close range of the nomination on the first ballot, a Massachusetts switch might be decisive...
merchantmen will soon force shipowners to replace 200 of 1,062 ships sailing under the U.S. flag, spend $1.5 billion for new tonnage in U.S. yards by 1971, v. $500 million since 1946. Moore-McCormack Lines, Grace Line and American President Lines have already announced plans to build 83 new ships for a total of $874 million...