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...WEST VIRGINIA, Democrat Harley M. Kilgore holds a lead over former Senator Chapman Revercomb...
...publishers (Unicorn Press), the ad asked the paper to switch because "there is genuine discord . . . between the Times and the vast majority of its readers." Eisenhower, said the ad, "has gone so far off the deep end politically as to support such men as Rush Holt and Chapman Revercomb, who repulsively stand for what the Times has always courageously fought." Cache and Morse urged the Times's readers to "besiege our favorite newspaper with thousands of letters, cards, wires" asking the paper to "reverse its stand," and asked: "Gentlemen of the Times, when have you ever before sacrificed principle...
Last week the Displaced Persons Commission reported that the 80th Congress' Wiley-Revercomb law was just what Harry Truman had called it-"a pattern of discrimination and intolerance wholly inconsistent with the American sense of justice." The law, the commission declared, was "all but unworkable." Because of its restrictions, only 2,499 had been admitted in the first six months of its operation (it was scheduled to admit 205,000 in two years). The law excluded thousands of Jews and Catholics who fled from postwar pogroms and Communist coups. As written, the law also required job assurance for adolescents...
...date from November 2, 1948. Republican moderates defeated the right wing in the GOP summer convention, most notably when Charles Halleck was rejected as the Vice-Presidential nominee. And although the Senate was in grave danger-according to pre-Tuesday views--Governor Dewey refused to support reactionary Senator Chapman Revercomb in the West Virginia race...
Matthew Necley, championed by John L. Lewis and unions in general, bad an easy evening piling up votes over West Virginia's arch-conservative Senator, Chapman Revercomb, who had been left to lurch for himself by Republican chieftains. Senator Robertson of Wyoming lost out to Democrat Lester Hunt, whose sprightly campaign--contrasted with the pedestrian tactics of his opponent--was typical of many of the Democratic victories...