What Runs The Democrats And What Gives Them Power
John Gunther analyzes the Democratic Party's power centers, factions, and tactics. He contrasts Southern and Northern blocs, Civil Rights impacts, and the influence of figures like Truman and Roosevelt, outlining how electoral votes and internal cleavages shape strategy ahead of conventions.
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John Gunther
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Democratic Party
Republican Party
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Taft
James F. Byrnes
Mr. Truman
Bernard M. Baruch
Byrnes
Supreme Court
Douglas
Senator Lehman
New York
Jim Farley
Ed Crump
Memphis
Ike Men
Southern Regional Council
The
Americans For Democratic Action
Jack Arvey
Chicago
Frank Landsche
Ghio
Eleanor Roosevelt
Europe
Stalin
de Gaulle
Marshal Tito
Greece
Winston Churchill
Balic
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Truman
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Cleveland
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Larokina
Mississippi
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Louisiana
Scale-Eating Beetles Shipped To Samoan Islands
Riverside California dispatched a shipment of Vedalia beetles from the University of California Citrus Experiment Station to the Samoan Islands. Fifty live beetles were air mailed to fight cottony cushion scale, a major pest on citrus, with a note that the insect helped control the pest after its importation.
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California
Australia
University of California Citrus Experiment Station
Samoan
South Pacific
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Curtis P. Clausen
Division of Biological Control
Univer
Beetle Predators Transported by Air Mail Across Globe
The Riverside lab notes that the Verlalia beetle, a predator of scale insects, has been shipped to 65 countries since 1890. Predatory beetles are sent in light, porous wood packets that can fit envelopes and be air mailed to distant destinations, countering insecticide-driven scale outbreaks.
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Globe
Clyde Beatty Attacked By Lions Hospitalized
Clyde Beatty, leader of the wild animal circus, was attacked by two lions in Portland Oregon and hospitalized with severe leg lacerations. He left Portland for The Dalles soon after the incident and will be out of his act for several days.
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Clyde Beatty
Portland
Ore
Lyde Beatty Wild Animal Circus Vleft
Dalles
Beatty
Insect imports tested at Riverside Citrus Station
Other California agricultural pests are continually being sent from the Orient Europe the Mediterranean area and Africa for testing in the insectory of the Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside.
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California
Orient
Europe
Mediterranean
Africa
Citrus Experiment Station
Riverside
Radioactivity Rise From Nevada Tests Alarms California
California officials report radiation at 29 key sites ranging from zero to slightly above normal after A-bomb tests in Nevada. Dr. Stafford Warren says levels are 1000 times below danger. Civil defense director Maj Gen Walter Robertson questions manpower for 742 ground observer posts and warns of possible failure harming morale.
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Sacramento
California
Nevada
Stafford Warren
Warren
California Disaster Council
Walter M. Robertson
Civil Defense
Robertson
Air Force
Taft Seeks 1912 Ruling On Delegates Upheld
Sen Taft maintains Root 1932 precedent on contested Republican delegates as the line he will defend in Chicago. He overruled allies seeking to seal Texas delegations without hearings and the full inquiry path will be pursued from the national committee to the credentials committee and to the convention floor.
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Lyle C. Wilson
Washington
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Texas
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Credentials Committee
Eisenhower
Elihu Root
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Roosevelt
Root
Woodrow Wilson
Senator Taft
Taft Opposes Reversal of Root Ruling Over Delegates
Taft researchers and advisers reject the idea of reversing the Root ruling which would invite numerous states to stage phony delegate contests to temporarily disqualify a delegation during the convention roll call. Taft remains firm on his position.
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Eisenhower
Taft
Texas
Taft Faces Texas Backlash in Democratic Split
The uproar in Texas has put Taft in a defensive position. Supporters would prefer nominating him without Texas if possible, highlighting regional tensions within the party.
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Texas
Taft
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