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...Fischer, is to put pressure on newsdealers, booksellers and drugstores to remove from their counters all books on a blacklist, which includes work of such literary mandarins as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Dos Passes, George Orwell, Emile Zola, Arthur Koestler and Joyce Gary. "In some places-notably Detroit, Peoria and the suburbs of Boston," Fischer writes, "the organization has enlisted the local police to threaten booksellers who are slow to 'cooperate...
Word from What Cheer. To Peoria, Ill. traveled Dwigtit Eisenhower, having already turned down all suggestions that he try to outpromise Stevenson. If Adlai's farm-rich home state was turning against Ike (who carried Illinois by 443,000 in 1952), it could not be seen in the crowds fanking Peoria's streets four and five deep. That night in Bradley University's overflowing field house (seating capacity: 8,300), Eisenhower was interrupted 31 times in 28 minutes by applause while he scorned the Democratic farm program, stood confidently...
...case for the Administration's farm program as detailed by President Eisenhower in Peoria...
Evidence of this serenity-and of the way it has affected his thinking about his campaign-was written large over the President's activities last week. His Peoria speech struck hard at Adlai Stevenson for "mockery and deceit" on the farm problem, but what he regarded as most important was his explanation of the Administration's own farm record. Similarly, to the surprise of correspondents and staff alike, he showed no anger at his press conference when asked to comment on Stevenson's attack on his brother Milton Eisen hower. His color rose only once-when...
Holding to his no-politics promise, Ike touched upon the farm problem only long enough to say that he would discuss it in detail (at Peoria this week). He guessed that "many of you here will not agree with me. Some of you, frankly, will probably think I am a little bit crazy. But I am quite sure that none of you will think I am not honest." The crowd applauded, and Ike went on to suggest how the nation might "find the right answers" to its problems great and small-by approaching them "as Americans and in the spirit...