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...Vermont Democrats chose ten delegates (with six: votes), all unpledged. ¶ Washington state Democrats picked 32 delegates (with 22 votes), most of whom favor Kefauver, and heard a stem-winder speech by Candidate Robert Kerr. Sample passage: "Eisenhower hasn't committed himself on anything. He is the nation's only living unknown soldier." ¶ North Dakota Republicans chose eight Taft men, one Ike man and five uncommitted delegates to go to Chicago. ¶ North Dakota Democrats elected 16 unpledged delegates (with eight votes). ¶ Hawaii Republicans received assurances that both Taft and Eisenhower would support statehood...
Dick was born in the windswept town of Winder (rhymes with binder) in the rolling, blood-red Georgia hills 52 miles northeast of Atlanta. With twelve brothers & sisters, he grew up in a stern, religious home. Father was a Presbyterian, mother a Methodist, and the full text of the Bible had been read aloud in the home twice before Dick was 13. Justice was dealt with a peachtree switch and a leather strap, and Dick still remembers the time his mother whipped him "until the blood came...
When Dick was six, his father put the name of Russell on Georgia's map by incorporating a settlement a mile and a half east of Winder. It became a flag stop on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Atlanta line, so father Russell could commute to his office in Atlanta. Dick's mother, now frail and 84, still lives in Russell, Ga. (pop. 150) with her oldest grandson, Richard Russell Green...
...month and each student did 36 hours' work every month. At the University of Georgia, he was both a serious student and a cheerleader, but no campus politician. After he got his law degree in 1918, he did a short stint in the Naval Reserve, then returned to Winder and hung out his shingle...
Suppose, says Teacher Levine, that a lot of Brooklynites do say lawr, sawr, drawring, Jerly, Aurgurst and ersters. As far back as 1919, says Levine, a certain Professor Krapp showed in a learned work that New Englanders do pretty much the same thing with r's. They say winder for window, Banner for Hannah, piazzer, Noar, chawrk and dawrg, James Russell Lowell is another case in point: "A mournful providence fashioned us holler," wrote the poet, "on purpose that we might our principles swaller...