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...countenance back into a semblance of normalcy." The dominant feeling among Democrats was surprise. The abundant talk in the last few weeks before E-day about a switch to Stevenson had not prepared them for what was, in fact, an overwhelming switch to Eisenhower. A New York grocer named Vincent Goluch took it hardest, turning in five false fire alarms the morning after election (as he turned in the sixth, police arrested him). In San Antonio, a Democratic boarder, annoyed by the triumphant smirks of his Republican landlady, set fire to her house. "I just didn't like...
...President of France, the usually equable Vincent Auriol, was almost in tears. "Messieurs, les Ambassadeurs," he cried, before a French audience gathered last week for the opening of the Rhone Valley's Donzere-Mondragon dam, built with the help of $33 million from the U.S. Addressing himself directly to the assembled foreign diplomatic corps, which included the U.S.'s James C. Dunn, Auriol launched into an emotional refutation of recent U.S. criticism of France...
More votes went to third-party candidates in '48. Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate, polled 20, while 23 swung to Henry Wallace of the Progressives. This year only one faculty member bolted the two major parties, his vote going to Progressive Vincent Hallinan...
Black limousines whisked French President Vincent Auriol and his glittering guests from Paris out to the 1,500-acre estate around the presidential chateau at Rambouillet. The party took their places at the butts, waited while beaters waving red & white flags drove 9,000 pheasants into the morning air. Then the firing started. After four sweeps, the shooting party moved on to an artificial lake where white-jacketed gamesmen dragged roped bells across the water, sending about 100 wild ducks aloft. The guns went off again. Some of the high scorers of the day: Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands...
...Business, through its control of both major parties, is expanding this country's "imperialist empire" at an "express train rate," said Vincent Hallinan, Progressive Party candidate for President in his speech to the Young Progressives in New Lecture Hall yesterday...