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...Techniques. Polite but cool, Committeemen fidgeted for a day, then prepared to pigeonhole the wartime prohibition bill introduced by South Carolina's bony, pious Joseph R. Bryson. But they could not lay away the still vigorous prohibition movement quite so easily...
Last week Willkieites were frankly dismayed by the strong Dewey sentiment among the committeemen at Chicago. Their dismay crystallized plans for an immediate Willkie campaign of action. Trusting as always in an appeal from G.O.P. professionals to the rank & file, Candidate Willkie will shortly set off on a nationwide speaking tour, declare himself strongly on domestic issues...
Lowell House Freshmen will ballot today, probably at lunch, for their representatives in the permanent Freshman Committee for the Class of 1947. Dunster, Adams, Eliot, Kirkland, and Dudley have all selected their committeemen, and the Lowell elections will fill out the group...
...York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, leader in national GOPresidential polls since November 1942, got another bouquet. The Republican, official G.O.P. magazine, queried 3,500 State and county G.O.P. committeemen: "In general, do you agree with this leader's stand on foreign affairs?" From these professionals, Tom Dewey got the highest percentage of affirmative votes (48.3%), followed by Herbert Hoover (47.7%) and Wendell Willkie (41.4%). More than anything, the poll showed that G.O.P. committeemen considered men rather than issues. Almost all GOPresidential possibilities stand for some form of world organization; the practical committeemen voted most heavily...
...Salt Lake City's Newhouse Hotel, G.O.P. national, state and county committeemen from eleven western states met for a two-day "Save America" powwow. Most committeemen were content to grouse about the liquor shortage, while their political optimism ran high. They listened to optimistic speeches, passed routine anti-New Deal resolutions...