Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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He managed to get the "loyalty pledge" watered down so that it did not call for support of the nominees, but simply pledged the delegates to try to get the nominees on their state's ballot. This pledge Shivers accepted "without reservation." He got his Democratic delegation seated. He...
The next move may be for the Shivers Democrats also to nominate Eisenhower and Nixon. This cross-filing was provided by a special bill passed in the Texas legislature two years ago, popularly known even then as the "Ike bill." Shivers did not resist the loyalty pledge at Chicago which...
At the tag end of an 18-hour workday, General Mohammed Naguib, Egypt's reluctant strong man, and his eager-beaver officers gathered around a radio in Abbas-sia barracks. They tuned in to hear their hand-picked Premier, Aly Maher, report to the nation. When the Premier had...
Rhubarb & Calomel. The pattern emerged most clearly in South Carolina, whose Democratic leaders gathered at Columbia to complete the state convention recessed last April. The man whose attitude counted most was old Governor James Byrnes. Southern Democrats, he told the convention, had won some victories at Chicago. Stevenson was the...
While Governor Byrnes was being harried with questions on the loyalty pledge, smoke and flames rose from among the tightly packed crowd of delegates. In short order, the firemen put out the flames. Jimmy Byrnes rose to say dryly: "I want to announce that I did not set the place...