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...insisted that a stout civil-rights plank-including an FEPC-be written into the Democratic Party's 1948 platform. The results were awesome: the Dixiecrats walked out of the convention, the party split, and that was as far as civil rights ever got. Southern Democrats in the Sist Congress threatened to filibuster civil rights to death, and had their way. The 82nd Congress is now six months old and the Administration has so far made no effort to revive the issue. Last week Senator Humphrey, seeing that no one else was making a move, dropped into the legislative hopper...
...legislative speed, the 81st had passed the $20 billion supplementary military appropriation, the $3.1 billion civilian-defense bill, and the excess-profits tax designed to add $3.3 billion to the Government's revenue. In spending for defense, the 82nd would no doubt continue to follow in the Sist's large footsteps...
...sist Street, where a new department store was going up, the owners, thoughtful of New Yorkers' idle curiosity, had put windows in the plank boardings, so the public could watch the construction job (not as commonplace a sight in the U.S. as it was a generation ago). Next door other workmen were putting a new face on St. Patrick's. Down the street, the sign on the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas said that Dr. Joseph Sizoo would preach the next Sunday on "When Dawn Comes...
When Peter Cooper ran for President, on the Greenback ticket, he got 82,000 votes. But he was one of the most wonderful grandfathers who ever lived. His prosperous glue (and gelatin) factory, at Madison Avenue and sist Street in Manhattan, would have made him a fortune even if he had not invented the mercury vapor lamp, built the first American steam locomotive, or helped finance the Atlantic cable. His long white hair reached almost to his shoulders. He shaved himself with a razor used by George Washington. He wore a black frock coat, a black stock about his neck...
...Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (Mrs. Berle is now a practicing physician in Washington, D.C.) This was the biggest Manhattan realty transaction in seven years. But it had special significance: the latest Rockefeller acquisitions (at three Sixth Avenue corners-two at 48th Street, one at sist Street) could mean the expansion of $100 million Rockefeller Center along dilapidated upper Sixth Avenue...