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...Quarter. But the rebel cries reached a hysterical pitch. It was clear that if Truman rammed Douglas through, he would risk a final, rending split in the party...
...have you ever been a Communist?" The unionists were from the C.I.O.'s Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which takes in everyone from truck loaders to notions-counter clerks in the country's department stores. The union, with some 150,000 members, is split by a right wing-left wing fight...
Most of the seniors said they were satisfied with their major subject, although 13% of the men and 17% of the women wished, now that it was all over, that they had chosen a different one. The kind of education they had had was split roughly 60-40 between a generalized education and specific training. Asked what they would desire if they could do it all over again, half said they would follow the same educational line, the rest leaned toward more specific training...
Some time after 9 o'clock, Ed Martin, in white suit and white shoes, rose in the great hall. He was drowned out by boos, some of which came from Pennsylvania's split delegation. But he went doggedly on to his conclusion: "It is the greatest honor of my life to present to this convention . . . Thomas Edmund Dewey...
...always scrupulously correct when white folks were around. But when with his own people, he liked to whoop it up. Wherever he went, he was followed by cronies-who admired him and split up what money there was in his wallet if it was lying around handy. Joe didn't mind. He never quibbled about a few hundred dollars; he never ducked an opponent. He has defended his title 25 times (more than any champion before him) and scored 22 knockouts...