High Point Urges Ike Campaign Stop for North Carolina
The Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club in High Point push for General Eisenhower to choose the city for one of his major Southern campaign addresses. They note High Point’s central location, past support for Dewey, and potential crowd at Albion Millis Stadium.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Lions Club
High Point
General Eisenhower
Ike
Dewey
Asheville
Charlotte
Ske
Albion Millis Stadium
Abilene
Kansas
Roosevelt
Raleigh
Colliseum
State College
Eisenhower
Board of Strategy
South
Chicago
Jaycees
Lions
North Carolina
Popularity May Not Secure Ike Victory in 1952 Race
The piece argues that despite General Eisenhower's popularity, many voters benefit from government checks. About 37 million adults receive such checks, with roughly 8 million on payrolls. Most payments are signed by Democrats, complicating Ike's path to the presidency in what is viewed as an uphill fight.
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Eisenhower
Republican Party
Ralph Gwinn
Congress
Ike
The Healer Jesus Calls Levi and Forgives Sins
The gospel narrative recounts Jesus healing a leper and a paralytic, forgiving sins to show divine authority. He calls Levi Matthew, who hosts a dinner with tax collectors while critics question his company. Jesus emphasizes mercy for sinners and the aim to save humanity from sins.
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John Mark
Peter
Jesus
Capernaum
Levi
Matthew
The Mad House Oscar Ewing Ellis Arnall Ticket Fantasy
A column imagines Oscar Ewing for president and Ellis Arnall for vice president as a far fetched ticket. It lampoons campaign fund raisers, calls the effort a grass roots ploy, and humorously envisions slogans and public reactions.
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Washington
Federal
Oscar Ewing
Price
Ellis Arnall
Ewing
Arnall
Oscar
Ellis
Chicago
Reforming Conventions A Call for Secret Ballots and Machines
The piece argues conventions are noisy and costly and that television shapes perception. It proposes secret ballots with voting machines to curb boss power, noting primaries lack uniform rules and urging uniform election practices to restore delegates' dignity.
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Herbert Hoover
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Hoover
New York
Dewey
Taft
Eisenhower
Notable Cold War quotes from leaders and thinkers
A collection of statements from military figures, politicians, scientists, and analysts. The remarks touch on defense readiness, deterrence, public sanity, and policy debates about medicine and social programs, reflecting tensions of the era.
Presidents and ex Presidents in New York
Walter Winchell surveys ex presidents and their fates after leaving office. He highlights Jefferson’s bankruptcy near retirement, Washington’s public vituperation, Grant’s poverty and cancer, Adams’ bitterness, Madison and Monroe’s quiet privilege, Van Buren’s obscurity, Coolidge’s relief, and Taft’s ascent to Chief Justice as the story moves toward the older political drama.
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George Washington
Mount Vernon
Congressional
John Adams
Jefferson
White House
Adams
Madison
Monroe
Dolly Madison
Dan Webster
Martin van Buren
van Buren
Sixteen Democrats Seek Nomination in Democratic Fracas
A Chicago dispatch outlines the 16 Democrats hopeful for the presidential nomination. It details favorites Estes Kefauver and Richard Russell with pledged delegate gaps, potential Nod bearers Harry S Truman and Adlai Stevenson, and other contenders like Harriman, Kerr, Barkley, Williams, Humphrey, McMahon, Dever, and Rayburn. The piece explains the complex delegate system and fractional votes shaping the 1230 total with 616 needed.
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Russell
Kefauver
Kerr
Barkley
Humphrey
Harriman
Truman
Stevenson
Ewing
Arnall
Chicago
NEA
Dwight Eisenhower
Taft
Eisenhower
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
W. Averell Harriman
New York
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
Robert J. Barkley
Ohio
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
Brien Mc.Mahon
Connecticut
Governor Dever
Massachusetts
Sam Rayburn
Paul Douglas
Ilinois
Fred Vinson
Oscar Ewing
Scott Lucas
Illinois
Bill Douglas
President Truman
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