Valley News and Opinions on Taxes and Transport
A collage of local notes discusses March tax receipts in Morgan County, public protests over parking meters, and the value of diverse farming. It highlights Alabama land use maps, Decatur growth via American Motor Lines, and 1948 cotton prospects. Dave Lilienthal urges public service. a past political quote notes public office as a refuge for the incompetent.
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R. Shelton
Decatur
Alabama
Associated Press
Alabama State Planning Board
American Bus Lines
American
Greyhound
Dave Lilienthal
University of Virginia
Barkley Speech Ignites Democrats at Convention
Senator Barkley of Kentucky electrified delegates with a vigorous address that recalled classic political oratory. He defended the Democratic record, criticized Republicans, praised bipartisan foreign policy, and closed with a prayer as Truman signaled Barkley as a possible running mate.
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Barkley
Kentucky
Williams Jennings
Bryan
Pu Ne
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Truman
Washington
Dewey
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mr. Truman
Smoke filled rooms and Truman plots across 1948 campaign
A Washington Merry-Go-Round report recalls the 1944 White House transition and the 1948 bid, noting Chicago and Philadelphia rooms where Truman strategists debated reelection. Key figures include Ed Flynn, Mayor Kelly, Hagne, Hannegan, Pepper, and observers like Jimmy Roosevelt’s aides pressing for a run.
Westbrook Pegler on Democratic event and Truman drift
The column notes the Democratic convention mood with Oriental ceremony imagery and cites Frank Hague’s anti Truman stance. It mentions Henry Wallace support in New York and Franks Palumbo supplying a plane for delegates, plus Olin Johnston’s quip about inertia after Eisenhower’s surge fades.
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Henry Wallace
New York
Truman
Wallace
Frank Palumbo
Philadelphia
South Carolina
Olin Johnston
Roosevelt Machine Wreck Brings Fresh Dissent in Philadelphia
Farley and longtime Democratic power brokers grimly watch the Roosevelt machine crumble after a hard year. Hague and Kelly cling to city political control while Truman and Dewey clash over civil rights, party unity, and future strategy amid a chaotic Philadelphia convention scene.
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Cal Freedom
Hyde Park
Hague
Ed Kelly
Chicago
Roosevelt
Harvard
Kremlin
Farley
Kelly
Bellevue-Stratford
Jim
Harold Ickes
Leon Henderson
Wilson Wyatt
Chester Bowles
Henry Wallace
Laurence Steinhardt
Iron Curtain
Mr. Farley
Philadelphia
Brother Hague
New York
John O'Donnell
Washington
New York News
Long Isl
Bellevue
O'Donnell
O'D
Deep South
Mr. Truman
Tom Dewey
Mr. Dewey
South
Truman
Civil rights plank glare marks 1948 party clash
Philadelphia July 14 report outlines how Democratic and Republican planks on civil rights differ in 1948. It notes Democrats seek to avoid Southern anger while pledging equal rights and political protection, and Republicans push stronger anti lynching and poll tax measures amid ongoing civil rights battles.
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James Marlow
Philadelphia
Truman
Congress
South
Democratic Party
Chicago
United States
Armeda Services
FEPC
Fair Employment Practice Commission
Democratic rift over Truman renomination fuels Pepper bid
Delegates and observers at a Democratic gathering warned Truman’s renomination would cost millions of votes. Jack Kroll of CIO-PAC urged Claude Pepper as a rival, predicting a twenty year loss of power if Truman ran unchallenged. Joe Di Silva noted labor voters’ opposition to Truman, while Leonard Finder, Eisenhower booster, said independents would defect if Truman led the ticket.
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Douglas
Pepper
Florida
Truman
Henry Wallace
Jack Kroll
Cio-Pac
Ohio
Wallace
Kroll
Claude Pepper
Joe di Silva
California
Jimmy Roosevelt
di Silva
Leonard Finder
New Hampshire
General Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Finder
Harry Truman
Josephus Daniels Voice on Democratic Party in 1944
The excerpt quotes Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy, describing the Democratic Party as a coalition of minorities. He cites the South, Catholics, Jews, and African Americans as barriers to presidential elections, praising Franklin D Roosevelt as a counterpoint. The passage notes the Philadelphia confusion as Roosevelt’s era ends.
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Josephus Daniels
Woodrow Wilson
Navy
South
White House
Daniels
Franklin D Roosevelt
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
South Carolina Democrats Display State Flag in Adelphia Hotel
Democrats moved into the Adelphia hotel and tore down Truman pictures, raising the South Carolina state flag. Party leaders privately expect Truman to gain over a million votes.
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South Carolina
Adelphia Hotel
Truman
Ex-cabinet member leads senate bid visit to Philadelphia
Prominent convention delegate Canton Anderson, former Secretary of Agriculture, travels from Washington to Philadelphia to rally with ex-cabinet peers including Tom Clark John Snyder Charles Brannan and Stuart Symington. Police escort meets the group at the airport but Anderson is not listed for car assignments, prompting Symington to quip about his new non cabinet status.
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Canton Anderson
Senate
New Mexico
Anderson
Washington
Philadelphia
Tom Clark
the Treasury
John Snyder
Agriculture
Charles Brannan
Air
Stuart Symington
Clint
Symington
Eisenhower Special trains into town in delay
The Eisenhower Special arrived seven hours late as Illinois convention coverage noted dull proceedings. Ed Kelly touted a $300 atomic medical gadget claimed to cure everything from rheumatism to gallstones. A veteran reporter quipped about vacation time lost. Charles Brannan, now Secretary of Agriculture, had previously ridden in government cars with Clint Anderson. The Bellevu Stratford hotel offered a giant inflatable rubber donkey, which the Democrats declined in favor of a papier mache donkey with electric eyes.
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Illinois
Chicago
Ed Kelly
Clint Anderson
Charles Brannan
Brannan
Anderson
Bellevu-Stratford
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