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...Florida, post-convention switches in political allegiance produced a high-level standoff. After resigning as Palm Beach County Republican committeewoman, Mrs. James Dinsmore Tew II last week announced that she planned to campaign for Adlai Stevenson and "never felt stronger about a candidate in my life." The same day Mrs. Bessie L. Boyd announced her resignation as Democratic committeewoman from Dade County (Miami). Said Mrs. Boyd: "We need a change in Washington...
...Eisenhower, Julius H. Requard, Maryland delegate to the 1952 Democratic National Convention. Reason: Builder Requard found the appointment of ex-Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt as Adlai Stevenson's personal campaign manager "just too much for me to stomach...
Uncommitted once again was blonde, beauteous Faye Emerson (No. 3 of Elliott Roosevelt's four wives), who last May appeared in New York's star-studded Cit-izens-for-Eisenhower Rally, but now wants to hear more about Adlai Stevenson...
...weeks, Adlai Stevenson kept the Democratic Party guessing about his choice of a national chairman. The pols, including Cook County's Jack Arvey, urged Stevenson to keep Frank McKinney on in the job, or pick some other pro. But Stevenson, acting entirely on his own, chose a new face: Stephen A. Mitchell, Chicago lawyer. Like the choice of Wilson Wyatt as campaign manager (TIME, Aug. 11), the move was designed to reinforce the impression that Candidate Stevenson is independent of the regular Democratic organization...
...almost heresy in the Truman Administration: "The wage increases which recently have been allowed in the steel industry and in other industries are certain to have an inflationary effect." A special session, with Maybank and other Southerners talking like that, would de-unify the Democratic Party in short order. Adlai Stevenson, who had officiated at the reconciliation ceremonies in Chicago, obviously would not want that to happen...