Word: sparkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state convention earlier in the week, Mississippi Democrats also voted to back the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket. After the convention adjourned, some dissidents held a rump meeting of "Democrats for Eisenhower," named an independent slate of electors pledged...
...weekly press conference, Harry Truman recoiled at the word "mess." He said he couldn't comment on Stevenson's statement because he knew of no mess in Washington. Nor would he comment on Vice Presidential Candidate Sparkman's view that the late steel strike had been "mishandled...
...difference between "a key" and "the key" might turn out to be important. When Truman was asked at his press conference if he liked the way the Stevenson-Sparkman campaign had begun, he replied with two eloquent words: No comment...
...Louisiana, a hotbed of Dixiecrat rebellion four years ago, the Democratic State Central Committee last week voted 77-9 to put the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the ballot under the rooster symbol, traditional emblem of the Democratic Party. The surrender was not unconditional: the committee told Louisiana citizens that they could vote for Eisenhower in November and still remain Democrats in good standing. It also repudiated the national platform planks dealing with civil rights, FEPC and Senate cloture...
...effect. Newsmen and Congressmen began clamoring for release of the forbidden shocker. The State Department, Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency all insisted that the report be classified as secret, because its contents might give aid & comfort to Soviet propaganda in the Middle East. In June, after Senator John Sparkman's Small Business Committee demanded the report's release, Harry Truman didn't even bother to reply. He had already suppressed it for what he called the good of the nation. But after the Democratic Convention, when Sparkman, now the vice-presidential nominee, asked again, Harry Truman...