Word: sparkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberalism in general today is pure, unadulterated demagogery," Myra Tanner Weiss said Tuesday in a statement to the CRIMSON. Miss Weiss, candidate for the Vice-Presidency on the Socialist Workers Party platform, attacked both Gov. Adlai Stevenson and Senator John S. Sparkman as enemies of the working class movement...
...ballyhoo in trying to clear himself, he is nevertheless morally honest, and certainly not reactionary. He is not McCarthy. (The CRIMSON's coverage of his Boston appearance was not only slanted but inaccurate. Nixon was introduced not by Lodge, who never spoke, but by Herter.) On the other hand, Sparkman has been kept pretty far in the background. Do the "liberals" in the Stevenson camp really think they can kill the filibuster or legisislate FEPC with Sparksman presiding over the Senate? Is it "honest discussion" to raise such a furor over Nixon, while deliberately disregarding the alternative...
...other hand," Key added, "the Democrats, in their nomination of Sparkman, recognized the less conservative wing of the southern Democrats. It seems evident that the national Democratic party if holding and renewing the loyalties of those classes of southerners who might reasonably be expected to be Democratic in the light of the broad differences in policy emphasis between the two parties...
...June 7, 1948, said Dewey, John Sparkman became the "busiest Jim Crow agent in America."* On that he voted against 1) abolishing segregation in the armed forces, 2) an anti-lynching measure to protect members of the armed forces, 3) exempting servicemen from paying poll taxes...
...Dewey, who rarely misses a point in this kind of argument, forgot one: in Sparkman's Alabama, the Democratic rooster at the top of the ballot bears the printed legend: White Supremacy...