Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final curtain, the delegates might have marred the lesson by flubbing the vice-presidential nomination with a futile compromise to "bind up the wounds." They did not flub it. Richard Nixon, progressive fighter against Communism and corruption, fits the logic of the Monday vote, the Wednesday vote, the nominating ballot-and the struggle for victory...
...lawyer and an able organizer, who had developed an amazing communications network among pro-Taft delegates. Some of these were hidden in predominantly pro-Ike delegations, such as New York. Walter claimed that he had 644 votes for Taft-but these could only be delivered on an actual nominating ballot, and only if Taft looked like the winner on that ballot...
...Dirksen, in the mixed metaphor of the year. "I am in your corner to the last ditch." Bob himself told the delegates that he had been sitting up most of the night figuring, and he could not see how Eisenhower could get more than 560 votes on the first ballot. Said he: "They're shooting the works for a first-ballot nomination, and if they don't get it, Eisenhower is through...
...play" resolution. Robert Taft had not yet lost the nomination nor even the fight over contested delegates, but jubilant Ikemen could not help recalling the prediction of Pennsylvania's Governor John Fine: if the Langlie resolution won with a sizable majority, Ike would be nominated on an early ballot...
...Explained how he expects to reveal his choice for Democratic nominee: Tom Gavin of Kansas City, an old friend and Delegate Harry Truman's alternate, will vote on the first ballot at the national convention for Truman's candidate...