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Qavam replied by sending truckloads of troops roaring through the streets and imposing a curfew. But rioting spread; soon 20 people lay dead. Others made battle banners out of white cloths dipped in the blood of the wounded. They threw themselves before Sherman tanks and pleaded with the soldiers to come over to their side. Teheran began to look like a city gripped by revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Blood in the Streets | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Eisenhower had some ideas about the sort of fellow he wanted for a running mate: a young, "forward-looking" man, and someone who would help him get along with Congress. Among others, he considered Senators Knowland and Nixon, Governors Warren, Sherman Adams (New Hampshire), Val Peterson (Nebraska), Dan Thornton (Colorado). Brother Milton Eisenhower plugged for Taft; although Eisenhower advisers thought that Taft 1) would be bad for the ticket, 2) would not accept anyway. Eisenhower left the final decision to a meeting of his advisers, presided over by Herbert Brownell, at the Hilton, on the afternoon of his nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wanted: Bright Young Man | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...James Gordon Bennet and Philo Sherman Bennet essay prizes went to Donald F. Sandberg '52 and Robert M. Guttman '52, respectively. Their essays were entitled. "The Cooperative Extension Service and Democracy" and "The Selection of Leaders in the Conservative Party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Announces '51-52 Prize Winners | 6/5/1952 | See Source »

...organized in all but half a dozen of South Dakota's 68 counties, and a first-string squad was coming in to speak for Ike. Among them were Senators Jim Duff of Pennsylvania and Fred Seaton of Nebraska, Governors Dan Thornton of Colorado, Val Peterson of Nebraska and Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, Representatives Walter Judd of Minnesota and Clifford Hope of Kansas. The Ike big guns would fire their heaviest volleys after Taft left the state this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Fighting Bob | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

Steeped & Basted. Richard Brevard Russell stands bald head and broad shoulders above the course he represents, although he was steeped in Southern traditions and basted on both sides. His great-great-grandfather, John Russell, was a South Carolina plantation owner who held 100 slaves. General Sherman, on his way through Georgia, burned the cotton mills and freed the slaves of Grandfather William John Russell. Richard Brevard Russell Sr., Dick's father, was a Georgia lawyer and judge who served as the state's chief justice for 15 years before he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Negative Power | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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