Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full half hour. Gillespie recalled later: "I told him he had done more for Negroes than any other public figure in America. Mr. Dewey asked me, 'More than Lincoln?' I told him, 'Yes, Lincoln did his part in another way.' " Gillespie departed, pledged to support Tom Dewey on the second ballot. Every day after that, Judge Rivers met Gillespie at breakfast and stayed with...
Martin's support of Dewey was well known. But he had agreed in open caucus with his Pennsylvania rival, Governor Jim Duff, who was an anti-Dewey and pro-Vandenberg man, to hold the state's delegates together indefinitely and wait for some strategic moment to make their bargain. Now Ed Martin posed, sitting on a sofa, with his arm snugly around a smiling Tom Dewey. Dewey aides announced a press conference for later in the day; the rumor spread that not only Ed Martin but New Jersey's Governor Driscoll would be there. The wise guys...
...Sigler was willing to compromise-on Vandenberg. Stassen wanted-Stassen. Earlier, Stassen had been willing to throw his strength to Vandenberg. But now the coalition strategy was for each man to stand firm. Each maintained that he could never hold certain states pledged to him if he threw his support to some other man. What about Warren? Said Duff, who was living in a suite at the Hotel Warwick across from Warren: "The governor of California seems to be rooted in concrete...
...President did get some encouragement. Old Bill Green predicted: "The Republicans certainly won't get much labor support." From Chicago came word that Jake Arvey, who had been thumping for Ike Eisenhower, admitted that Harry Truman "has picked up a lot." The President also got some advice. Mississippi's John Rankin came out of the President's office and suggested that the secessionist Dixiecrats might stay hitched if the Democratic platform went no further on civil rights than the generalizations of the 1944 plank -which proclaimed that "racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop...
...Henry Morgan, who last month accused his straw-blonde wife Isobel of not only being a bad cook and a Communist but of lacking a sense of humor, publicly gasped with horror at himself after they reached an "understanding" in Manhattan. (She dropped her suit for $750-a-week support.) "I am ashamed," said he. "I guess I just don't have much sense. If I did, I'd probably be in another line of work. I'd quit radio and go straight, or something...