Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monday. At the first night session they rammed through (by voice vote) a resolution requiring all delegations to sign a "loyalty pledge," promising to use "all honorable means" to get the convention's nominees on the ballots in their states (TIME, July 28). This was designed to make it...
Tuesday. The "half-educated boys" began to suspect that they had gone too far, agreed to soften the pledge by adding a proviso that, "for this convention only," it would not be binding if it interfered with state laws. But Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana still refused to sign.
In the midst of the nomination hoopla, the North-South battle erupted again. Louisiana's Governor Kennon insisted that his delegation could not sign the loyalty pledge: "So, I suppose, I shall have to say goodbye and God bless you." Maryland's senatorial candidate Lansdale Sasscer moved to...
Georgia's Governor Talmadge said flatly that his delegation would make no such pledge because it would be contrary to Georgia statute. Nearly all the Southern delegations, except Alabama and Tennessee, spoke in bitter opposition to the amendment, warning that the party would lose the South to Eisenhower if...
This week, union and management met again as the steel loss to the nation rose to 16 million tons, or 15% of a year's production. After four hours, the meeting ended without a settlement. Before the C.I.O.'s Wage-Policy Committee this week, President Philip Murray defiantly...