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...between enthusiastic Eisenhower supporters and the pro-Taft Old Guard. The Ikemen, rallied by Houston Oilman Jack Porter, had turned out in record-breaking numbers for the precinct caucuses and county conventions. They had routed the Taftmen and carried the day for Ike. But the Old Guard, behind National Committeeman Harry Zweifel, had bolted, held its own rump sessions, and named slates of pro-Taft delegates in the 31 counties. Zweifel & Co. desperately wanted to keep their grip on their "private-club" Republican organization, which they had controlled for years. Although every Ikeman had signed a Zweifel-designed Republican pledge...
California National Committeeman James Roosevelt, who proposed General Eisenhower for the Democratic nomination in 1948, again invited the wrath of the party machine, this time by plunking for Estes Kefauver. Said the late President's eldest son: "The opponents of Kefauver . . . are the big city bosses who have lost so much . . . by their close tie-ups with corruption. [He has] the support of the little man in the street...
Three bands, including that of Blue Barron, are signed up for this year's Class Week, committeeman Ira M. Peterman '52 announced last night. Betty Clarke (above) will be the vocalist featured with Barron's outfit...
...twelve Eisenhower men to go to Chicago. Then they formally instructed the delegation to vote for Ike-a break with the custom of sending officially uncommitted delegations. Finally, they chose Eisenhower's state campaign manager-Edward G. Janeway, a onetime Wall Street broker-as Vermont's national committeeman. It was the first time in memory that the job did not go to a lifetime Vermonter...
...Arizona, Taft men wanted the state delegation committed to the unit rule, and the Eisenhower forces rebelled. When the argument tied the state convention in parliamentary knots, Pro-Taft Author Clarence Budington Kelland, national committeeman, seized the microphone and roared: "This convention is approaching a point of absurdity. It is a completely ridiculous mess. I move to get out of this mess that we adjourn." Finally, the convention abandoned the unit rule, did about what it was expected to: ten delegates for Taft, two for Eisenhower, two uncommitted...