Word: sparkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House Adlai Stevenson got his Cabinet lunch (chicken livers, mushrooms & bacon, jellied pineapple salad and canteloupe à la mode) and more than an hour's powwow with Harry Truman and Vice Presidential Nominee John Sparkman concerning campaign plans. He also got a 20-minute intelligence briefing on the Korean war and the international situation in general. Present at the briefing, by order of Harry Truman, were C.I.A. Director General Walter Bedell Smith and General of the Army Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Columbia to complete the state convention recessed last April. The man whose attitude counted most was old Governor James Byrnes. Southern Democrats, he told the convention, had won some victories at Chicago. Stevenson was the most conservative and best-qualified candidate, excepting Georgia's Dick Russell. John Sparkman had always been true to the South on civil rights. The platform is bad on civil rights, but might have been worse if the South hadn't been in there fighting. Then the governor got to his recommendation: "To pledge the electors of the state Democratic Party to vote...
This was not enough for some of the hotter heads, who still wanted to give the Democratic spot on the ballot to the Republican nominees. Said James A. Mayfield of Bamberg County: "Senator Sparkman is just the sugar-coated candy to get rid of the rhubarb and calomel taste of Truman and the C.I.O. gang." But Jimmy Byrnes's plan, as is customary in South Carolina, was adopted...
Going Fishing? This was, in general, the way the Democratic nominees and platform have been received throughout the South. In John Sparkman's Alabama and in North Carolina, there is no serious Democratic resistance, but the enthusiasm is limited. In Georgia, Florida and Tennessee, party leaders accept the ticket, but with little...
...Sparkman had already been nominated for a sixth term in the House when Bankhead died, could not have dropped out of the congressional race without allowing a Republican to win it by default. To avoid that disaster, he ran simultaneously for House and Senate and won both elections-the first man in U.S. history...