Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Triumphant Discussion. At Neosho, Mo., he couldn't resist giving the home folks a triumphant discussion of his travels. "I started out at Des Moines, at a plowing contest," said ex-Plowboy Harry Truman, "and there were just about ten acres of people in front of the stand where I spoke ... I went to Denver and there were 100,000 people . . . went on down the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and over to Salt Lake City...
There was every likelihood that J. Strom Thurmond would be an even smaller deposit of sediment than Harry Truman. As the Dixiecrats' candidate for President, he did not stand a chance in the world. He might capture as many as 50 electoral votes-next to Bull Mooser Theodore Roosevelt's 88 in 1912, the biggest block ever won by a third-party candidate. He was the result of Harry Truman's political courage-or lack of political acumen. His appearance had marked the collapse of the compromises which had held the Democratic Party together for 16 years...
During interrogation the two were periodically made to stand with their faces to a wall, noses and toes touching it, hands over their heads. Questioners worked in relays. Most questions were variations on two basic themes: 1) Was it not true that their real purpose in Hungary was to sabotage the Hungarian government? 2) had they not been doing this by curtailing production? Their answers were continuously interrupted by shouts of "You're lying!" The first interrogation lasted six hours; the second, which began three hours later, lasted 15. Not until it ended were they given their first prison...
Following the speeches, the HLU will take up the endorsement of a presidential candidate. Since HLU is affiliated with ADA, which is supporting Truman, it is expected that the Liberal Union will take a similar stand...
...year like 1948, a handful of indispensable "old pros" stand out like Gullivers among the Lilliputians. Each of the top teams in the American League race...