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Dutch Bobs. "He's just the kind of guy who has to lead." says Soapy's admiring younger brother Hank, now a Republican district committeeman and rancher in Glenwood Springs, Colo. "Soapy was president of the choir at St. Paul's in Detroit. He used to kick me out all the time. I made the kids laugh and Soapy would run me out. Luckily I had pull: father was a vestryman and he would get me back in." Father Henry P. Williams built up a comfortable income in the pickle business and in Detroit real estate. Mother...
...larger contests aired at the GOP convention, has simply shifted from the convention floor, where viewers glimpsed it only during the ludicrous moments when the threeman delegation was polled, to the National Committee, where Eisenhower enthusiasts in Puerto Rico have filed suit to oust the pro-Taft National Committeeman and woman...
Eisenhower had, however, told the man from Massachusetts that he was personally interested in seeing the real Puerto Rican party represented on the National Committee. The legal convention's nominee for National Committeeman therefore has field suit before the National Committee to remove the pro-Taft Puerto Ricans. The Committee has met but once--to learn "the wishes of the nominee" in regard to the Chairman--and did not take up the suit. As the Committee appears to be somewhat emasculated during the current campaign and therefore will probably not meet too often, no settlement may appear for some time
...convention gavel last week. Next morning the new national committee met for the first time, dispatched a subcommittee to get Candidate Ike Eisenhower's ideas on Gabrielson's successor. When Ike had given his views and specified a Midwesterner, the committee chose Michigan's national committeeman, Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield...
...will replace Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. as Eisenhower's field general, chiefly responsible for the conduct of the presidential campaign. In a sense-making rules change, the Republicans expanded the national committee to include-in addition to one committeeman and committeewoman from each state-all state G.O.P. chairmen whose states go Republican in a presidential election, or elect a Republican governor, or send a G.O.P. majority to Congress. This change gave Summerfield a 138-member national committee, the largest in G.O.P. history...