Word: planked
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Admitting that any civil rights plank was useless without a change in Rule 22, the Democratic Party last summer pledged itself to fight for a revision. The Southerners, as with the 1948 civil rights plank, quite frankly declared that they were not bound by the party vote. And when the issue came to the Senate Wednesday, every single Democrat from outside the South stuck by the platform...
...Dulles expounded his ideas in LIFE last May. Senator Robert Taft, during his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, accepted the Dulles brand of internationalism, quoted from the LIFE article. As the party's No. 1 statesman, trusted by all its major factions, Dulles wrote the foreign policy plank of the convention platform, thus avoided a split in the party on the foreign policy issue...
...names in the ad were "non-matriculating students . . . grounds employees, purchasing agents or dieticians." ¶Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, contender at Chicago for the Democratic presidential nomination, came out for Stevenson in a 750-word statement to Atlanta papers, although "I do not subscribe to every plank of the Democratic platform nor agree with all the views of our party's presidential candidate." ¶Commenting that "I have nothing on earth to lose but a political job," South Carolina's Democratic Representative L. Mendel Rivers announced himself for Eisenhower. Said Rivers: "the Democratic Party...
...other hand, the Democratic platform is quite specific. "We pledge enactment of federal legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, or national origin and establishment of a federal agency to enforce that prohibition." The plank also advocates legislation against segregation in inter-state transportation, against the poll tax, and against lynching. Governor Stevenson has not shied away from this plank. Not only in Harlem, but in Texas, Virginia, and other states, Stevenson has reiterated this stand on federal civil rights legislation. And Stevenson's civil rights record in Illinois, where he pushed through an FEPC law, testifies...
...stand, Republicans have been pointing to John Sparkman, predicting he will try to block FEPC, if elected. Admittedly, Sparkman's civil rights record has not been good; it has been a reflection of his constituents. But Sparkman, who has an otherwise excellent voting record, wrote the Democrats' civil rights plank. Like Hugo Black, who was also a senator from Alabama, Sparkman promises to be a champion of civil rights, once away form his electorate. There is no reason, however, to expect Senator Nixon to change. Although he represents California, a liberal state, Nixon cast his vote against FEPC during...