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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Democrats from A (for Alabama) to V (for Virgin Islands) last week began translating the national convention into terms of Chicago timetables and hotel reservations, eleventh-hour state conventions and committee meetings assayed candidates and took preconvention stands.
NEW JERSEY. Delegates heard appeals by Candidates Averell Harriman and Estes Kefauver and by Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager, Jim Finnegan, but elected to go to the convention uncommitted. Though the group is heavily pro-Stevenson, leaders will plump for the delegation's chairman, Governor Robert B. Meyner...
MISSISSIPPI. Despite the stifling heat in Jackson's city auditorium, Governor James Plemon Coleman quickly whipped the state convention into line, eased a Coleman majority into the 44-man unit-rule delegation. He thus headed off the rebels who wanted to make third-party noises before the convention and...
COLORADO. The state convention met to hear speeches by Stevenson, Kefauver and Harriman, and to pick an uninstructed 20-vote delegation which leans strongly to Adlai. Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan and ex-Congressman John Carroll got approval to fight it out for the Democratic senatorial nomination...
With this development, Orville Hodge caved. Quitting as state auditor, candidate for reelection, and delegate to the G.O.P. national convention, he reportedly told Governor Stratton: "I just don't know why I did it. I didn't need the money." Epping, his office manager, was fired. All week...