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...personnel goes, 19 seniors--17 of them lettermen--walked the graduation plank last June, and 11 of these were starters at one point or another last season. Two more letter winners, John White and Charlie Walsh, have failed to report; Al Wilson, a big, strong lineman who did not gain a letter last year but who did establish himself as an excellent prospect, has not shown up; and John Ederer, a sophomore back with speed and great driving power, is on probation...
...Power & Influence." The Big Blow moaned around Harry Truman's platform. No plank in it had been more loudly and insistently proclaimed than his plank on civil rights. An FEPC bill had been on the Senate calendar since October 1949. Scott Lucas had scheduled FEPC second on the legislative program this year (first: repeal of the oleo tax). Instead, Harry Truman and his Senate leader had let one bill after another run ahead...
...significant plank in the platform was a disavowal of the group's initial intention to abolish the Council. A "genuine and representative Student Council, which will speak for the students and not dictate to them" is the new object of the committee...
...member of the 81st Congress, Humphrey has been a supporter of the civil rights program and was one of those responsible for placing the civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform. He favors extension of rent control and the bill advocating $300,000,000 federal aid to education...
...point the statement's drafters were firm. National Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who speaks for the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, wanted to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy, but he was briskly quashed. Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge fought vainly for a more vigorous civil-rights plank. Cried Lodge: "We've got to get the ball and run with it. We must declare our forthright determination to break a filibuster if necessary...