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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just a Brother. Reuther was careful to avoid any show of steamroller tactics. Anyhow, the noisy left-wing opposition of past years had dwindled to a whisper. The delegates re-elected him by a 12-to-1 vote, installed Reuther men in every important post. They also shouted themselves hoarse when Reuther introduced a friend he had invited along, Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Young Roosevelt laid it right on the line. He said: "I feel more like a brother. I not only am glad to be here; I belong here...
...President was about to submit an arms program as "an implementation of the Atlantic pact." Dulles knew no such thing: "I do understand that there is a program . . . which was worked out entirely independently of any treaty ... I see in the treaty no legal or moral obligation to vote any arms program which is not defensible on its own merits...
Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse thought they were-and should be-bound together. Said he: "I am going to vote for the pact enthusiastically, because I believe it carries along with it the . . . military implementation for stopping Joe Stalin in his tracks . . . Unless that is ... the meaning of the pact, it is already a museum piece for Stalin's repository of diplomatic scalps...
...eleven men and one woman deliberated for three hours and 23 minutes, then brought in their verdict: Defendant Prichard was guilty of conspiracy to forge and vote illegal ballots; his law partner, also accused with him, was found not guilty. Judge H. Church Ford sentenced Ed Prichard to two years in federal penitentiary...
Apart from a few such incidents, the election went off calmly. Most of the 2,560,000 voters on the registration rolls went to the polls in the heaviest turnout ever (under a new law, eligible citizens who fail to vote can be fined). For the first time in any of Mexico's national elections, not a single death was reported...