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The Truman Election: Was 1968 A Repeat?, Cloene Biggs
The Truman Election: Was 1968 A Repeat?, Cloene Biggs
Honors Theses
As election day in 1948 drew nearer, political pollsters, pros and amateurs united in predicting victory for Thomas E. Dewey. Only underdog candidate President Truman and, as it turned out, the American electorate disagreed with this consensus.
At the end of 1947 Truman was considered certain for renomination by his party, and the Gallup Poll showed that he would easily defeat either of the two leading Republicans--Governor Dewey and Senator Taft. A get-tough policy with Russia had pushed up his popularity--the Marshall Plan, his advocacy of government action to curb high prices, his confrontation with labor leader John L. Lewis …
Is The Death Penalty Dying?, Sharon Coe
Is The Death Penalty Dying?, Sharon Coe
Honors Theses
Now that fourteen states, almost one-third of our country, have abolished the death penalty, it is causing other states to stop and examine capital punishment and see if the extreme penalty is really the most effective penalty.