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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would cut the underpinning out from under Henry Wallace and collapse the third party which some dissident New Dealers were jerry-building; 3) he would make a lot of people angry, but his advisers hoped that they would be mostly the people who would not vote for him anyhow. Presumably the advisers preferred not to think of the independent voters, who might decide that Harry Truman was a man without convictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The '48 Line Is Drawn | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...hung up before I could say 'goodnight.' " Two days later, Barkley was elected Senate leader by one vote. Dieterich voted for Barkley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Big Jim Explains | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...want you to call Ed Kelly of Chicago right now. Get him to put the pressure on Senator Dieterich [of Illinois] to vote for Barkley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Big Jim Explains | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...bill will hurt them almost as much as it will hurt labor. If the President uses his veto, he would do well to understand the predominantly sensible reasons from the point of view of industrial relations, rather than only the political picture of the moment. At any rate, a vote is needed for the second time in one week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thumbs Down | 6/19/1947 | See Source »

Throughout the year members of the state legislature noted this fact with a start, hoping somehow to place a tax on the high out-of-state percentage of students. Several bills to this effect were drafted, but they never came to a vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 577 High Schools Represented in '50 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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