Word: sparkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inescapable Conflict. John Sparkman likes to reconcile-or at least patch up-opposing views, a taste which makes him a good politician. But in February 1948 came Harry Truman's call for compulsory FEPC, anti-lynching and anti-poll tax laws, a blow which forced the great majority of Southern New Dealers into the arms of Southern conservatives. For the first time John Sparkman found his loyalty to the Administration in inescapable conflict with his loyalty to the South and his own political skin. As unobtrusively as possible Sparkman chose the South. He tried to avoid public discussion...
...Junior Senator. The Dixiecrat dilemma nearly tore the South apart. When the election was over, Sparkman joined with Senator Lister Hill and Governor Gordon Persons in a fight to insure that that dilemma would never again horn in on Alabama. The yeoman work was done by Lister Hill. Junior Senator Sparkman, whose rudimentary personal "machine" consisted largely of north Alabama farmers and his brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, led the fight against the Dixiecrats in the "loyalist" northern section of the state. Hill, whose personal following was tremendous, carried the ball in southern Alabama, a Dixiecrat stronghold. By January...
...since 1948, no Southern Congressman has been completely comfortable in his loyalty to the Democratic Party. John Sparkman, though more loyal than most, has consistently voted against attempts to force consideration of FEPC on the Senate. In April 1950 he proclaimed: "We Southern Democratic Senators-21 of us -are banded together and pledged to use every parliamentary device possible to defeat civil rights legislation." In Washington last week, Sparkman refused to state whether he would support civil rights measures as Vice President...
...Administration itself knows and admires the arts of compromise. It has been highly tolerant of such Southern opposition as Sparkman's. In 1950 the State Department selected Sparkman as one of five U.S. delegates to the U.N. General Assembly. From Andrei Vishinsky and Jacob Malik he learned something a good deal more Arctic than anything in Speaker Bankhead's zephyrus philosophy. "For the first time," said Sparkman, "I found men who were not amenable to any reason or compromise...
...greatest hour at Lake Success came -when Polish Delegate Julius Katz-Suchy, in a carefully prepared oration, blasted the U.S. for its lack of a land-reform program as sweeping as that of Communist Poland. John Sparkman, son of a tenant farmer and lifelong student of U.S. farm problems, was on his feet the minute Katz-Suchy sat down. With no preparation, Sparkman delivered a brilliant speech, pulling out of his head facts & figures which completely routed the Pole...