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...family last year was Georgie himself, who was packed off to school in Canada. Musing on the value of his jungle training, Mrs. Keith concludes that he had learned one great and humble lesson: "All men are human." That, she implies, and not "Poppa knows best," is the only plank on the wave of the future that white men can ride in the Far East without getting swamped...
...Minnesota's fast-talking Hubert Humphrey, not yet a Senator, who insisted that a stout civil-rights plank-including an FEPC-be written into the Democratic Party's 1948 platform. The results were awesome: the Dixiecrats walked out of the convention, the party split, and that was as far as civil rights ever got. Southern Democrats in the Sist Congress threatened to filibuster civil rights to death, and had their way. The 82nd Congress is now six months old and the Administration has so far made no effort to revive the issue. Last week Senator Humphrey, seeing that...
...press conference, Harry Truman was obviously thinking of an apostleship-of-peace plank in the Democratic Party's 1952 platform. "We would probably go back to the dark ages if we have a third world war," he said in mortuary tones. The U.S. itself would become a battlefront, he warned. His remarks (which he allowed to be quoted directly) were the latest in a string of melancholy lectures to the U.S. public on the horrors...
...British? Mossadeq stands on a single plank: oil nationalization. That issue had become the focal point of every political passion, every instinct of discontent in the country. How sound an issue does Mossadeq have against the British...
...treatment by family doctors, insisted that every victim go through the city's treatment centers. "I believe a new deal will come out of this epidemic here," he said. "Too many people, and even too many doctors, don't know enough about this pesky disease." Main plank in Dr. Gimby's new deal for ringworm : changes in health laws to make the disease reportable and handled as a public health problem...