Word: papered
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...Smith Myth." The paper was prepared under the supervision of Connecticut's Democratic State Chairman John Bailey, himself a Catholic, who strongly favors a national ticket of Protestant* Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy. It concedes only that "Democratic margins in several [Southern] states might be diminished" if a Catholic were nominated for Vice President. It quickly adds: "It is apparent that a Democratic Catholic vice-presidential nominee, although admittedly prejudices would be stirred, would lose no electoral votes for the ticket simply because a handful of Southerners or Republicans would not support...
Before Bailey's researchers could get on with their case, they had first to deal with the matter of Al Smith. "The 'Al Smith myth,' " says the paper, "is one of the falsest myths in politics. The year 1928 was a Republican year, regardless of who was on either ticket. It was a year for 'drys' like Hoover, not 'wets' like Smith...
...Catholic vote, says the paper, is "far more important than its numbers-about one out of every four voters who turn out-because of its concentration in the key states and cities of the North." The paper lists 14 states with 261 electoral votes: New York (with population estimated at 32% Catholic), Pennsylvania (29%), Illinois (30%), New Jersey (39%), Massachusetts (50%), Connecticut (49%), Rhode Island (60%), California (22%), Michigan (24%), Minnesota (24%), Ohio (20%), Wisconsin (32%), Maryland (21%), and Montana...
Among the selections scheduled for the concert are "These Foolish Things," "Dear Old Stockholm," "Embraceable You," and "Paper Moon...
Take away unhappy childhoods and a seething contempt for the old hometown and many a U.S. writer might never have set pen to paper. Still, rebels like Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and Theodore Dreiser were moved at least as much by compassion for their Midwestern farmers and townsfolk as they were by a kind of rage because life was not more beautiful. Their kind of literary rebellion is as dated today as the harsh, shallow life they raged against. That is what makes The Narrow Covering, a first novel by Kansas-born Julia Siebel, as curious and archaic as grandpa...