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Shortly after dawn cracked over the waking town of Independence, Harry Truman, in his first public sally since his illness, popped out of his house, strolled a block to become the day's third voter at his precinct in Missouri's primaries...
...there was a new feature: this was the first time that troops have been used. Murray ordered the National Guard out after getting reports that votes were being bought in five counties. The Daily Oklahoman dismissed as a futile gesture "a cordon of bayonet-bearing troops around every voting precinct in five counties." But Murray was not impressed. If he hears of more vote-buying, he said, he will order the troops out for the runoff on July...
Teams of carpenters and painters hurried through the streets of Naples last week to perform some quick alterations at more than 90 precinct offices of the city's dominant political party. Speedily the workmen painted out the words Partita Nazionale Monarchico and its star & crown emblem. In their place they painted Partita Monarchico Popolare and nailed up a new emblem, two lions rampant and a crown...
...Bowring's interest in politics came from her second husband, for many years a county commissioner and a state legislator. (He once was appointed to the state legislature to succeed Dwight Griswold.) She was a Republican precinct worker for 20 years, then county chairman; since 1946, she has been vice chairman of the Nebraska Republican State Central Committee. To get to political meetings on the western Nebraska plains, she has traveled by plane, car, snow sled and on horseback. Says she: "I've gone to those meetings in everything but a manure spreader...
...Precinct Worker Tommy learned his politics under Baltimore's Democratic Boss Willie Curran, but at 22, in defiance of the machine, he got elected to the Maryland house of delegates. After two terms, Tommy wangled an appointment in the Internal Revenue Bureau's New York office, and named his second son Franklin Delano Roosevelt D'Alesandro (afterwards known as "Roosey"). Back in Baltimore, Tommy served a term on the city council, then ran for Congress against the machine-backed incumbent. By a 58-vote margin, Tommy...