Harry Truman's nomination for the presidency was apparently in the bag. Last week Frank Hague's New Jersey Democrats pledged their "militant support" of him; Kentucky's Senator Alben Barkley flatly predicted that he would be nominated and elected.
The South was still grumbling. Memphis' Boss Ed Crump snarled: "I'm for anybody except Harry Truman. Any good Democrat will get my vote." But he added that there was no truth in reports that Southern states would hold a rump convention. Even without the South, Harry Truman seemed to be in. National Chairman J. Howard McGrath announced that his rock-bottom figures showed the...
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