Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressive write-in vote of 106,946 in the Minnesota primary. It was clear to most delegates that Stassen had no chance for the nomination, but Stassen was sharply disappointed about what he considered defections. When one delegate told Stassen not to rely on him in a second ballot, Stassen said: "Then I don't want you on the first." In the morning caucus, sentimental loyalties to Stassen fought with political realities. Governor Elmer Anderson, Senator Edward Thye and Mrs. F. Peavey Heffel-finger, national committeewoman, asked Stassen to release them so that they could vote for Eisenhower. With...
Across Balbo* Avenue in his headquarters at the Conrad Hilton, Taft was also watching the ballot on TV. In defeat, the man who had tried so long and hard to be President was calm and collected. But all over Taft headquarters, women workers were in tears...
...politics in the early '40s. In 1948 Summerfield led a movement to get the Republican nomination for Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg. This year Summerfield kept his important Michigan delegation on the fence right up to convention time, finally went (35-11) for Ike on the first ballot...
...announced that he would like to try. The Veep has always managed to be loyal to the Fair Deal (including FEPC), and at the same time so loyal to his friends both in the North & South that he is regarded by one & all as "Mr. Democrat." Asked on what ballot he expects his nomination, Barkley cracked: "Almost any ballot would be satisfactory...
...grinding it out." But there were beats of a sort by those willing to take chances. The day the convention started, Editor Louis Seltzer of the Cleveland Press climbed right out on a limb with a Page One story headlined: IKE WILL WIN ON THE 3RD OR 4TH BALLOT. Two days later in Chicago, Publisher John Knight predicted in the Daily News that Ike would be the candidate and Nixon his running mate. If he was wrong, said Knight, he would "just have to go off fishing somewhere...