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...that the National Committee's call came to them. Once the attorneys were through, the Committee began a raucus internal argument. Eastvold repeated his declaration, and the member from Rhode Island took up the strain. He first suggested that the call was unimportant in this case since the National Committeewoman from Puerto Rico was married to one of the Rump delegates, and then harrangued his colleagues on Gate's part in the deal--accusing the General Counsel of personally arranging yet another "steal." A bellow issued from the audience, and Gates himself marched to the podium. There, on a point...
...Florida, post-convention switches in political allegiance produced a high-level standoff. After resigning as Palm Beach County Republican committeewoman, Mrs. James Dinsmore Tew II last week announced that she planned to campaign for Adlai Stevenson and "never felt stronger about a candidate in my life." The same day Mrs. Bessie L. Boyd announced her resignation as Democratic committeewoman from Dade County (Miami). Said Mrs. Boyd: "We need a change in Washington...
...delegate told Stassen not to rely on him in a second ballot, Stassen said: "Then I don't want you on the first." In the morning caucus, sentimental loyalties to Stassen fought with political realities. Governor Elmer Anderson, Senator Edward Thye and Mrs. F. Peavey Heffel-finger, national committeewoman, asked Stassen to release them so that they could vote for Eisenhower. With tears in his eyes he agreed. Three more delegates asked to be released unconditionally, and again he reluctantly agreed, and added that the whole delegation could switch to Ike if he had more than 580 votes...
...will replace Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. as Eisenhower's field general, chiefly responsible for the conduct of the presidential campaign. In a sense-making rules change, the Republicans expanded the national committee to include-in addition to one committeeman and committeewoman from each state-all state G.O.P. chairmen whose states go Republican in a presidential election, or elect a Republican governor, or send a G.O.P. majority to Congress. This change gave Summerfield a 138-member national committee, the largest in G.O.P. history...
...Stearns1 Walk. The stories of what had happened at the precinct and county level fell into a definite pattern. Harris County (Houston) was typical. Among the pro-Taft rump sessions was one in the home precinct of the Zweifel National Committeewoman, Mrs. Carl C. Stearns. After a big majority of the 175 voters at the regular caucus went for Ike, Mrs. Stearns, her husband and 25 other Taft supporters walked out and held their own clambake. This and other rump sessions in the precincts brought about contests for 69 delegate seats at the Harris County convention. But 146 pro-Eisenhower...