Truman Describes 1944 Vice Presidential Fight
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WASHINGTON —(U.P.)—Former President Truman struck a new blow in his bitter feud with James F. Byrnes by telling his "inside story" of their rivalry for the 1944 Democratic vice presidential nomination.
He said that although he (Mr. Truman) was the late President Roosevelt's choice for the No. 2 pot on the Democratic ticket, Mr. Byrnes telephoned just before the convention and "told me that President Roosevelt had decided on him as the new nominee for vice president, and asked me if I would nominate him at the convention."
"I believe," Mr. Truman said, "that Byrnes knew that the President had named me at the time he called me."
Version in Memoirs
Mr. Truman's version of one of the most sharply disputed chapters in American politics is in the third installment of his memoirs, published by Life magazine.
Version in Memoirs
(Francis Heller, associate professor of political science at KU worked with Mr. Truman on the personal papers which form the basis of the memoirs.)
Mr. Byrnes, who was to become Mr. Truman's secretary of state and later governor of South Carolina, was the late President Roosevelt's top White House assistant in 1944. Mr. Truman was a Missouri senator who had won national renown as head of the Senate War Investigating Committee. With Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, they were leading prospects for the second spot on FDR's fourth-term ticket—a job that was fated to lead to the presidency upon Mr. Roosevelt's death in 1945.
Preferred Truman
Mr. Truman said that unbeknown to him, FDR met with Democratic party leaders "far in advance" of the 1944 party convention, and told them that "he preferred Truman over Wallace, Douglas or Byrnes."
At the meeting, Mr. Truman said, the President wrote a longhand note to Democratic National Chariman Robert Hannegan saying "Bob, it's Truman, FDR."
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Mr. Truman said he had no idea at that time that FDR had tapped him, and on the basis of Mr. Byrnes' phone call he "took it for granted" that Mr. Byrnes was the choice.
Mr. Truman said he told Byrnes he would be glad to place his name in nomination "if the President wanted him for a running mate." He said he stuck by his pledge and tried to line up support for Mr. Byrnes at the convention, even after Mr. Hannegan, labor union leaders and others "put pressure on me" to seek the post.
SARASOTA, Fle— (U.P.)—Hotel owner C. V. Griffin repented his folly in betting on nature today and hoped for sunny skies at least through December.
He said he "continued to resist" until FDR, in a telephone call to Mr. Hannegan which Mr. Trumau could overhear, asserted that he would "break up the Democratic party in the middle of a war" if he turned down the nomination.
Last month Griffin backed up Florida's "sunshine state" slogan by offering rooms free to guests on any days the sun failed to shine. The offer is good for the rest of the year.
He had to give 236 guests from 17 states free accommodations in September when the sun let him down on three separate occasions.
Instructor To Attend Meeting
Miss Frieda Sloop, instructor of home economics, will attend a meeting of the Heart of America Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television Saturday and Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa.
Survey Shows Student Powers
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—(L.P.) Results of a nation-wide survey of student participation in college policy-making are expected to be published in a report this fall by the National Student Association, together with a limited number of booklets outlining the role of students in specific areas.
Believed to be the most exhaustive study of its kind, the survey will seek to determine the formal and informal powers accorded students, faculty, administration, trustees and alumni in the operation of colleges and universities. Major emphasis will be placed on the position of student government organization on campus.
Supported by a grant of $29,400 from the Ford Foundation, the survey, conducted during the past nine months, involved questionnaires to deans of students and student leaders at about 800 colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Information from the survey will be supplemented by materials abstracted from college statutes, bylaws, and other official documents. In addition, intensive study of 10 to 15 prominent schools, undertaken by a field representative of the research project, will highlight the survey.
Advisers to the project included E. G. Williamson, dean of students, University of Minnesota; Mrs. Althea Kratz Hottel, dean of women, University of Pennsylvania; and George Weigand.
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School Sets Up Student Fund
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (I.P.)—Matching an anonymous gift of $50,000 with an equal sum raised by contribution, the sponsors of the University of Virginia Graduate School of Business Administration are establishing a $100,000 student finance fund to finance, through deferred payment of expenses, students of a new school.
Dean Charles Abbott, in announcing availability of the fund, said, "The potential of the fund to finance students is such that no man or woman need give up the idea of business education at the graduate level because of lack of money. The Graduate Business School will be able to supply, on a deferred payment basis, sufficient funds to cover the minimum financial needs of all students it will be able to admit."
The Graduate School of Business Administration is the South's first school in this field wholly at the graduate level. It has an endowment of more than a million dollars given by Virginia business, banking and manufacturing interests. Income from this
endowment has been matched with appropriations from the state of Virginia.
Dean Abbott resigned as Converse professor of banking and finance in the Harvard Graduate Business School and has been spending the past year assembling a faculty and planning a two-year curriculum which will lead to the degree of master of business administration.
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