Word: thurmond
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
South Carolina's Democratic Senator J. Strom Thurmond looked across the witness table at Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, and asked: "What is the soh'ce of yo' policy?" Sylvester, who is from Montclair, N.J., was puzzled: "I beg your pardon?" Repeated Thurmond: "What is the soh'ce?" "The what?" "The soh'ce-s-o-u-r-c-e." "Oh, source," "Yes, soh'ce. Ah speak with a Southern accent...
Dark Hint. Before the U.S. Senate's Armed Services Subcommittee hearings on military "muzzling" (TIME, Feb. 2) had gone much farther last week, it was apparent that Strom Thurmond and Arthur Sylvester would never really understand each other-and that the trouble was more than a matter of accent. As the Senate's foremost critic of the Defense and State Departments' policy of reviewing public statements by military leaders, Thurmond was trying to prove that censorship has been capricious-and worse. There has been, he darkly hinted, a "secret, defeatist" policy within the State Department to prevent...
...severity of these questions should not give the impression that McCone's appointment was in any danger; indeed, Senator Symington, less like a blocker than a best man, led him through the Committee hearing as he would down a wedding aisle. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) also came to the defense of the blushing newly-wed when Senators like Fulbright, Clark, McCarthy and Case (R-S.D.) impugned his honor...
During the 1948 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, a handful of Southern delegates walked out in protest against a strong civil rights plank in the party platform. Reconvening three days later in Birmingham, rebelling Democrats set themselves up as the States' Rights Party, nominated Governor Strom Thurmond for President. His wife at his side, Thurmond campaigned in earnest, sounded alarms against "the federal gestapo," wound up with a popular vote of 1,169,063 and the electoral votes of Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina...
...Thurmond left the Governor's mansion in 1951 and opened a private law practice in Aiken, S.C. In 1954 he staged a write-in campaign for the Senate seat of Burnet Maybank, who had died between the primary and general elections. Thurmond defeated a candidate who had been handpicked by the state's presiding Democratic leaders and went to Washington. There, he distinguished himself mostly for his windiness: in 1957, during a one-man filibuster against pending civil rights legislation, Thurmond kept talking for 24 hours and 18 minutes, stoked himself through the night with pumpernickel, hamburger meat...