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...Young Republicans are reconciled behind Dowey, and have an ambitious fall program lined up which includes a large variety of campaigning methods. Motorized speaking caravans, door-to-door canvassing with special emphasis on Representative Christian Herter's district, and weekly rallies featuring such speakers as National Committeeman Sinclair Weeks, Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14, and Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon are the highlights of this program...
...lack of music, trumpeting and general fanfare became the subject of official notice today. C. Bascom Slemp, national committeeman from Virginia, broke in on a conference of the Hoover board of strategy today to suggest that something be done. 'Give 'em music,' Slemp pleaded, 'and they'll forget the depression...
...Sniffing out numbers racketeers in Ford's sprawling Rouge plant, Dearborn's Police Chief Ralph Guy found himself on the scent of a $5,000,000-a-year gambling ring, employing over 600 Ford workers as writers, pickup men and runners. His prize catch: a plant committeeman of the C.I.O. United Auto Workers, who, Guy reported, offered him $50,000 a year to lay off. Said Guy: "We know of some workers who frequently gamble away their entire week's pay without ever leaving the foundry...
Ordeal of Mr. Sigler. The Michigan delegation sat in indecision and suspense, looking to Sigler and National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield for advice. They began waving their hands at Sigler, who stood like a man transfixed. He had only minutes to make up his mind. Connecticut was ready to break for Dewey. Where the hell was Baldwin, so Sigler could talk to him? Trapped in a pack of sweating pages, newsmen, photographers and delegates crowding the aisles, Sigler could not move. James Powers, a Michigan delegate and Detroit auto dealer, grabbed Sigler's arm and shouted...
...that gathered over the melon in Room 808 had been summoned by Tom Dewey to select a Vice President. Some were old Dewey partisans-Congressman Leonard Hall of New York; Dewey's John Foster Dulles; National Committeeman Lew Wentz of Oklahoma; Barak Mattingly of Missouri and Mason Owlett of Pennsylvania. Others were days-old allies, men who had thrown their weight behind the Dewey bandwagon when that weight counted most-New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, Massachusetts' Governor Robert F. Bradford, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and the Kansas City Star...