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...Louis, Dewey gave his strategy a trial whirl. After a brief conference, Missouri's National Committeeman Barak T. Mattingly unhesitatingly announced that Tom Dewey would be nominated on the first ballot. He said that Dewey was already assured of 420 of the approximately 547 votes he needed to win, that Missouri was overwhelmingly eager to follow the Dewey standard. For the rest of his "vacation," Tom Dewey would do his best to make that spirit contagious...
...Dewey's close friend, New York's Republican National Committeeman J. Russel Sprague, is a man to know a hat before he tosses...
Initiative won over student apathy when, ten minutes after meeting time, House Committeeman Richard G. Kleindienst '47 announced to the 30 members present, "Go out and get three more House members apiece and bring them back with you if you want to see this meeting succeed...
...morning last week no reporters showed up. There was not even a stray ward committeeman on hand, thumbing through an early paper. Sitting silently in his big, green-cushioned chair, staring at the picture of his dead son, Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly had come to the end of the trail, alone...
...they get pretty annoyed at some of Dewey's tactics." Said Michigan's Congressman Roy Woodruff: "Arthur Vandenberg is the kind of man the nation needs." Despite these differences, there was little doubt that a big percentage of the committeemen thought Tom Dewey was their boy.* No committeeman, Tom Dewey was not at the dinner; he was returning from a four weeks' vacation at Sea Island, and Miami, where he wrenched his shoul der playing golf...