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Under Cambridge's proportional representation voting plan, 5000 votes are ample to elect either one of the nine councilmen or a school committeeman...
Died. Charles Dewey Hilles, 82, Old Guard GOPolitico (chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1912-16); in Speonk, N.Y. He ran William Howard Taft's unsuccessful bid for reelection, was President Taft's personal secretary during his White House term; later, as national committeeman from New York, helped elect Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...
...Tuck. This time it was the Dewey leaders who were trying to fight somebody with nobody: Committeeman Axel J. Beck of Elk Point...
...states accounted for, Gabrielson and Beck were locked solid 45 votes to 45. Alaska's one vote put Beck ahead. Then Gabrielson went into the lead with two votes each from the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Before the final vote was announced, one Nebraska committeeman switched his vote to give Gabrielson a bare majority...
...Deweymen forces were completely routed. In a radio interview, retiring Chairman Scott admitted: "I certainly don't think that Mr. Dewey ought to run in 1952." New York's Committeeman J. Russel Sprague, who ran the Dewey floorshow in Philadelphia, put it more bluntly: "We New Yorkers . . . won't have a candidate in 1952. We'll just sit back and get some of the loving for a change...