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Davis reached the pinnacle of his political life at the Democratic Convention of 1924-the longest, noisiest, bitterest political gathering in U.S. history. For two sweaty, exhausting weeks two evenly matched political gladiators-William Gibbs McAdoo of California and Al Smith of New York-kept the old Madison Square Garden in an uproar, the delegations hopelessly split, the Alabama delegation doggedly casting "24 votes for Underwood" and the convention stalemated. Finally, after the 80th ballot, the deadlocked delegates began to drift away from Smith and McAdoo, and the nomination was left to a field of also-rans...
...anti-filibuster change in the Senate rules. A fight on this point would have set Northern and Southern Democrats at each other's throats at the very outset of the 1955 session. The man who killed the plan was Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, once the noisiest and most reckless of the South-baiters. Humphrey urged his friends to "abandon the devil theory of politics," i.e., to recognize their Southern colleagues as reasonable, constructive men rather than as fiends from the pit. Humphrey prevailed, and after that it was easy going for the Democrats. Next day Georgia...
Though so far the noisiest of the lot, the N.A.A.W.P. is not the only group fighting desegregation. Others and their creeds: ¶ The National Association for the Advancement and Protection of the Majority of the White People, chartered in Georgia last June, claims it will fight "any and all legal actions brought to destroy segregation laws between the White Race and the Colored Race." Among its founders: Dr. Marvin Head, onetime Chief Klansman of Griffin...
...Eden deprecated the U.S.'s urgency by remarking that the idea was "really not a new one ... Its relevance to current events must not be exaggerated. It could be a future safeguard, but it is not a present panacea." "There Is a Danger." All through his speech, the noisiest approval came from the Socialists. Herbert Morrison, Foreign Secretary in the last Labor government, said that Eden "has taken much the line that we should have taken had we been in office." Tory and Socialist alike, speaker after speaker rose to congratulate Eden on his speech and his Geneva mission...
...world's noisiest lovebirds, Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor, whose California divorce from Cinemactor George Sanders will become final next April, and Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, who will be divorced by Heiress Barbara Hutton in Paris any month now, flew separately from the U.S. to Paris and immediately began a well-publicized twittering...