Word: splinters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson was watching her husband split logs, using a wedge and a sledge, at their St. Regis, Mont, farm when something struck her in the abdomen. Last week, when Mrs. Johnson's baby girl arrived (by Caesarean section), doctors found nothing wrong with the baby except a steel splinter, as big as a fingernail, stuck in her scalp. Now she is doing fine...
...feels it is not his function as presidential candidate to tell the people of Wisconsin whom they ought to send to the Senate. Says he: "The idea of forcing uniformity within a party is precisely the thing that most European countries have been doing to their own injury . . . This splinter party system of Europe ... is what the Democratic spokesman recommends for us Americans...
...Running for the four-year term left by the death of McMahon are Democrat A. A. Ribicoff and Republican Prescott Bush. The regular six-year term is being contested by the incumbent Senator William Benton, a Democrat, and William Purtell, Republican. Also after the six-year seat are two splinter-party candidates who, in traditionally close Connecticut contests, may gain enough votes to decide the elections--far right Vivian Kellems and so called Socialist Jasper McLevy...
Because the 1950 senatorial contest was decided by only 1,102 votes, splinter candidates Kellems and McLevy probably hold the balance of power in the Benton-Purtell race. Kellems, a manufacturer who has been waging a one-woman feud with an oblivious U.S. government, classes herself an Independent Republican and may attract some disgruntled Taftites. The Democrats are more worried about McLevy, however, than the regular Republicans are about Kellems. McLevy is not much of a Socialist, but he's an unbelievably strong party boss in his city of Bridgeport, where he has been mayor for more than ten years...
...Schroeder '53, HYRC president, that the Liberal Union explain its support of the Democratic civil rights record, Carrington said the party's civil rights plank was "the most forthright statement on the subject ever adopted by a major political party." He contrasted the plank to the Republican's "Splinter" in civil rights, which he called "weaker than its 1948 or 1944 stands...