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Yankee Buccaneer has more than its share of pitched battles, broadsides, plank walkings, scurvy epidemics, pirate attacks and pistol-point escapes. It even has a man-eating shark which Farragut subdues. But it is still no great shakes as either Hollywood hokum or history...
American and U.N. recognition of the Peoples Republic of China is another plank: "whether we like it or not, the Communist government is the government in control...
That the Constitution Party resembles the old America First movement is apparent. the party's first chairman, Mrs. Stevenson of Connecticut, recently resigned, charging the party's platform smacked of Anti-Semitism. She referred to the plank: "We must preserve our Christian heritage which has been the strength of this union." She also said some of the party members objected to her as chairman because she was foreign-born and a Catholic...
...audience repeatedly interrupted Stevenson with applause. Nor did the crowd show hostility when he frankly told them that he would stand by the Democratic platform's civil-rights plank. Said Stevenson: "I should justly earn your contempt if I talked one way in the South and another way elsewhere...
Several threw their luck in with the Harriman forces. William E. Leuchtonberg, formerly an assistant professor of History, served as a delegate analysist for Harriman, while Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, did sundry chores, and helped with the conservation plank in the Democratic platform...