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...GOPresidential nominee, and the corners were full of gossip. Said Wisconsin's greying, amiable Tom Coleman: "Out there it's all Stassen and Dewey." Said Pennsylvania's G. Mason Owlett: "Regular Republicans are sore about those Western speeches Tom Dewey has made, and about his FEPC bill and things like that. I know they get pretty annoyed at some of Dewey's tactics." Said Michigan's Congressman Roy Woodruff: "Arthur Vandenberg is the kind of man the nation needs." Despite these differences, there was little doubt that a big percentage of the committeemen thought...
...anti-Truman howls of labor and left-wingers, when the chips were down, the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee went down the line for Truman's man. So did some Negro Republicans,* who wanted to take a crack at Roger Slaughter's votes against the FEPC...
...political action that Booker T. would never have tolerated. Says she: "Without the Negroes' exercise of the franchise, neither the white nor the black can be free." Eloquent Mary Bethune has been stumping the country for years against the poll tax, for the anti-lynching bill and the FEPC. Sometimes her good friend Eleanor Roosevelt shares the platform...
...eyed intentness, and cheered The Man. Even planters in the rich Delta country who had always opposed him would vote for him this time. They thought him a knave but they knew he would filibuster to death any Congressional threat to "white man's supremacy" such as FEPC (the Fair Employment Practice Committee). Nothing short of a miracle would keep Bilbo from renomination, election, six more noisy years in the nation's capital...
...A.V.C. accepted as members men & women from all World War II armed services, in & out of uniform, and from the Merchant Marine. It had plumped noisily for FEPC, OPA, the minimum-wage bill, federal housing subsidies, other allied issues. From inside & out it had been damned as Communistic, boosted as liberal, dismissed as just another fly-by-night collection of hotheads. Even its leaders admitted they didn't know what the rank & file thought...