Word: planking
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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...
Another Spring half-course will be Government 113, "Latin American Politics and Government," offered by John N. Plank '45, teaching fellow in Government. Two graduate seminars, "World Politics, World Order and International Law," and "Defense Policy and Administration," led respectively by Stanley H. Hoffman and Henry A. Kissinger '50, will be added to the curriculum...