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...Dulles to a U.S. Senate vacancy, and four months later, after a crossroads campaign to win and hold the seat, the Wall Street lawyer was roundly defeated by Democratic ex-Governor Herbert Lehman. An early supporter of Eisenhower over conservative Republican Robert Taft, he helped write the foreign-policy plank for the 1952 G.O.P. platform. President-elect Eisenhower put him at the top of the list of choices for Secretary of State, a position he would also have achieved if either Republican candidate, Dewey or Taft, had become President...
Boarding Party. In Fayetteville, N.C., Lloyd Hall was charged with drunkenness and assault with a deadly weapon after state police found him standing in the middle of a highway, swatting passing cars with a long plank of wood...
Since the party split in 1948, the great political art of compromise has held the Democratic Party together. The South warned the party, and the Civil Rights plank of the Democratic platform was considerably watered down. In 1956, to the dissatisfaction of most liberals, Harry Truman himself averted an intra-party fight by dramatically taking the floor and calling for party unity at all costs...
Paul Butler, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, recently stated that the South will have to accept a strong Civil Rights plank because the bulk of the party will not compromise. Though pronouncements of this sort are never certain, there appears to be strong sentiment among liberal Democrats not to appease the South again...
...belief that the Democratic Party does not need the South to win the election prevails, and Mr. Butler keeps his word, the South will be placed in a difficult position. They will either have to swallow the strong Civil Rights plank or form a third party--and the independent movement is highly risky for the South...