Word: pennsylvanias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone knew, "civil rights" meant, largely, "Negro rights." The platform makers, headed by Pennsylvania's Senator Francis Myers, had hit, upon what they thought was the perfect compromise. They parroted the 1944 platform, affirmed the right of racial minorities "to live ... to work ... to vote." As for federal guarantee of those rights, they called upon Congress "to exert its full authority to the limit of its constitutional powers...
Pants & Stomach. Yellow skullcaps with propellers on top began appearing on the heads of New York and Pennsylvania delegates. A Powers model, carrying a Truman-for-President sign, edged on to the floor in front of the speakers' stand, where she was ogled and photographed. But the delegates listened to the speeches. The hall had taken on a look of purpose...
President Truman and Senator Barkley had just come into the hall (see above) when Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller bustled up to the podium. The sister of Pennsylvania's ex-Senator Joseph Guffey, and a perennial committeewoman, Mrs. Miller calls herself the Old Grey Mare...
...Lighted Sparkler. The Pennsylvania Railroad's grey-haired President Martin W. Clement, an arch-Republican, asked Democratic bigwigs to a garden party at the fashionable Merion Cricket Club. But the party seemed oddly like a waxworks exhibition. There, bowing and smiling and real as life, were scores of famous men who had already been politically embalmed...
...Democratic National Committee's formal dinner in the Rose Room of the Bellevue-Stratford had a fine veneer of gaiety. The joyous little desserts had lighted sparklers embedded in them. But there was little levity or enthusiasm. Welcoming the guests, Pennsylvania's Senator Francis J. Myers mentioned the name of Harry Truman only once and parenthetically at that. Then he pursed his lips in a graveyard whistle: "Nobody is going to lie down and die just to confirm a report in the newspapers, and neither is the Democratic Party. Who says we're dead...