Word: planking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mississippi (22): Governor J. P. Coleman favors. Stevenson, but Mississippi is unlikely to decide until after the civil-rights plank is settled...
...Plemon Coleman quickly whipped the state convention into line, eased a Coleman majority into the 44-man unit-rule delegation. He thus headed off the rebels who wanted to make third-party noises before the convention and left himself free to bargain in Chicago for the loosest civil-rights plank...
...House Majority Leader McCormack, who is, as National Chairman Butler put it, "widely respected both on Capitol Hill and throughout the country for his fairness and understanding," tackled the same chairmanship in 1952. His most ticklish chore this year: steering his committee through to an acceptable civil-rights plank...
Southerners politely applauded Harriman's retreat from antimoderation, hoped that it signified that the Harriman forces were abandoning their plan to disrupt the platform-writing sessions in Chicago with an unequivocal demand for a strong civil-rights plank. But Southerners were still cool and suspicious toward Candidate...
Just Like Ike? The Harriman team's strategy is to talk platform as much as they talk candidate. Principal reason: if the Harriman forces can force a strong plank on civil rights at Chicago, they can anger-and possibly drive out-the South, embarrass Stevenson in his position as the peacemaking moderate, and plump hard for a candidate who takes strong stands and can hold the big-city vote in the North, i.e., Averell Harriman. In its long-range thinking, the Harriman team figures that its big platform fight could win for "Honest Ave," much as the 1952 Eisenhower...