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...appointed Portland's Ralph Harlan Cake, Oregon Republican national committeeman, as his preconvention campaign manager...
Ralph Cake was sickly in youth, but he followed Teddy Roosevelt's example, fought his way to health on a ranch. He started his own political career only in 1940 when his old friend Senator Charles McNary persuaded him to become a candidate for national committeeman. Oregon elects its national party committeemen by popular vote. Cake stumped every county in the State, won by a vote almost as large as that of his three opponents combined. Father of two, he likes to read history and biography, hunt deer and bear in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. National Willkie headquarters...
California's acting Republican National Committeeman, William Reichel, explains the immediate hopes of California Republicans simply and bluntly. "I'm pro-Warren and pro-California," he says. "We want something to bargain with for California. We're not anti-anyone. Our program is sound. It's got logic. We have 50 convention delegates. We are big and strong and important and we're going to get something. At the convention our votes will get us a western Cabinet member, a western Supreme Court Justice and a western man on every high policy-making body...
Colorado's Edwin C. Johnson had reduced it all to neat percentages. Said he: the invasion army would be 73% American, only 27% British. Speaking as a Military Affairs Committeeman, Senator Johnson blurted out his statistics without any special criticism of anyone. But he thought they "might be a shock to some Americans...
...resolutions committee was headed by pugnacious Fictioneer Clarence Budington Kelland, who had traveled all the way from his home at Port Washington, N.Y., to assume his place as National Committeeman from Arizona (where he has a summer home). When Bud Kelland's committee got through with Fred Baker's proposal, all that was left was a one-sentence resolution recommending the admission of Alaska as the 49th State...