Word: creager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proposed by his own committeeman, Earl Warren got early support from Texas' redhaired Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, the South's most potent Republican. Chairman Spangler seconded the motion. Representatives of the Dewey and Bricker camps nodded agreement. In the face of such agreement at the top, all other candidacies collapsed. Earl Warren was chosen unanimously...
...Texan Creager's action was significant of the growing rush to the Dewey bandwagon. Heretofore, Ohio's Bricker was generally understood to have inherited the support of the South's "kept" Republican delegations which Ohio's Taft acquired in 1940. Some political dopesters now concluded that Warren had everything that was coming to him, that Dewey's running mate will turn out to be John Bricker-who is now the only candidate, Republican or Democratic, who has thrown his hat into the ring and jumped after...