When Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler. California National Committeeman Paul Ziffren and other dogged Stevenson enthusiasts dreamed up the Democratic Advisory Committee to pressure for liberal legislation in Congress (TIME, Dec. 10), they ranged 20 chairs around the advisory table and hopefully named 20 Democrats to fill them. Three seats were quickly claimed by Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. But Eleanor Roosevelt gracefully declined (her newspaper syndicate, she explained, might object), and Virginia's ex-Governor John S. Battle announced that he would not become a member under any circumstances. Last week came the ultimate blow when the nominated...
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