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...Democratic majority will be a far more liberal body than the recent group of Southerners which was sprinkled with New Deal remnants. Besides the replacement of several Republicans with sides the replacement of several Republicans with moderate or progressive Democrats, CIO-supported Lyndon Johnson has Lee O'Daniel's Texas seat, and Estes Kefauver whipped the Crump machine in Tennessee this summer as well as the Republicans this week. Democratic mossbacks are still to be reckoned with, but their influence has suffered considerably from the Republican debacle...
...local politics since the war, serving as Chairman of Boston's Citizens' and Labor Committee to Save OPA in 1946, and leading the Boston Tenant's Council to keep rent control, prevent evictions, and create new housing. He also served as Port Agent for the American Communications Association (CIO) for three years, gaining considerable labor support from that post...
...contention that the forces of New Dealism were gathering ominously to prevent him from being re-elected--thereby undermining the whole system of parliamentary government. When the CIO Political Action Committee was formed in early 1944, he sought in vain to connect it with the Administration. The PAC was not only legal, but it made things so hot for Dies down in Texas that he decided not to try for another term. Glumly muttering imprecations, he "retired," and his fellow-southerner, John Rankin, took over...
...exposures of radicalism and New Dcalism were hardly the sort of things Dickstein had had in mind. And when Dies took a merely routine wallop at the German-American Bund, and produced an American Federation of Labor man who testified that Communists were ensconced in both the CIO and the federal government, Dickstein gave vent to some heart-felt criticism...
...group adopted an 80-word constitution and heard Aldric Revell, Nieman Fellow here and vice-president of the Wisconsin CIO, call the Socialists "the only party that can stop the cycle of boom and bust...