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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the return of Big Jim Farley after two campaigns on the sidelines, Democrats would meet in a somber mood. The hyphen symbolized their dilemma. Few would dispute Harry Truman's descent from Andrew Jackson, the party regular. But angry Southern Democrats, smarting under the President's civil rights program, believed that he no longer had any right to claim Thomas Jefferson. In Mississippi last week, 5,000 local rebels gathered to brandish the Confederate flag and issue a secession call for all "true, white Jeffersonian Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Bow to Tradition | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...play drew large crowds for each performance. For services connected with the use of Sanders, the Workshop had to pay the University about $560. If the play had been a failure financially, HTW couldn't have paid its bills. And apparently, University aid in such a dilemma would not leap forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

Bradford's Dilemma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revision of Barnes Bill Could Puzzle Bradford | 2/18/1948 | See Source »

...Office sent orders contrary to Abdullah's, the man who serves two kings replied: "I am a British subject. I would have no alternative but to resign my command." Last week the British hoped that Glubb would not be forced on to the horns of that dilemma. If the little chess player's ambitions run away with him, say the British, they will immediately withdraw their subsidy, officers, Glubb and all, and cut off supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANS-JORDAN: Chess Player & Friend | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Sanders Theatre, its possibilities as an amphitheatre hopelessly stified by fire regulations, poses the problem of what to use for an auditorium. In solution of this dilemma the Committee has proposed a theatre seating 1,500 and suitable for plays, forums, and movies as the center of the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Committee Will Campaign For War Memorial Activities Center | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

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