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...feel that his brilliant chairmanship of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee has overshadowed his domestic liberalism, his staunch support of civil liberties, and his ardent internationalism," their statement read. It further stressed the fact that Kefauver was one of the five Senators who voted against the McCarran Act and that he was past-president of the American Academy of Political and Social Scientists...
Could It Be Estes? A staunch regular Democrat, Connecticut's Brien McMahon, rushed breathlessly into the Illinois presidential primary just ahead of the deadline. His aim: to cut down Kefauver, who had already entered. Former Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas, who believes that the Kefauver committee's revelations of politics-crime tie-ups in Illinois defeated him in 1950, had persuaded McMahon that Kefauver would be easy to beat. But four days later, McMahon backed out just as suddenly as he had entered, murmuring that he is really for Truman...
...grandfather Jesse W. Fell, who trudged into Illinois with a knapsack over his shoulder in 1832. Jesse Fell was a lawyer who became a real-estate developer and city planner, and was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first to describe Lincoln as presidential timber. A staunch Republican, Fell proposed the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and played an important part in the Lincoln-for-President campaign...
Adultery & C.C.N.Y. Russell's views on sex and marriage raised eyebrows, temperatures, and the sales of his books on two continents. A man whose own marriages had proved something of a trial, he was a staunch advocate of trial marriage. The purpose of marriage, he said, is primarily to make a home for children. The more deeply the parents are in love, the better, but if that cannot be, then "infidelity in such circumstances ought to form no barrier whatever to subsequent happiness, and in fact it does not, where the husband and wife do not consider it necessary...
...this Monday morn a number of incontrovertable facts bearing comfort and enlightenment to the Yale community. 1. Bob Hall is still Yale's Chairman of the Board of Athletic Control and Director of Athletics and we are very glad of it. 2. The Yale Daily News is still a staunch supporter of coach Herman Hickman. 3. This newspaper still strongly backs the recent abolition of spring football practice and has no intention of reversing its stand on this matter. 4. All is well on High Street. 5. The Yale Daily News published one (1) edition on Saturday--namely the Post...