Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft, who has campaigned harder and longer than any man who ever sought a presidential nomination, was beginning his last primary battle of 1952. For five days after his arrival in Canton, he stormed across more than 1,000 miles of South Dakota's rolling plains, Dantesque bad lands and towering Black Hills. He made 24 speeches to 50,000 attentive South Dakotans; almost every hall he entered was jam-full. In a flat Ohio voice he said the kind of things most Midwestern Republicans hoped to hear. He said he was against universal military training, high taxes...
Meantime, in the enemy camp, the activity was almost as furious. Eisenhower clubs had been organized in all but half a dozen of South Dakota's 68 counties, and a first-string squad was coming in to speak for Ike. Among them were Senators Jim Duff of Pennsylvania and Fred Seaton of Nebraska, Governors Dan Thornton of Colorado, Val Peterson of Nebraska and Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, Representatives Walter Judd of Minnesota and Clifford Hope of Kansas. The Ike big guns would fire their heaviest volleys after Taft left the state this week...
With the two candidates for the Republican nomination only a hot breath apart, South Dakota's primary is indeed important-more important than the 14 delegates involved. The June 3 primary, in which more than 100,000 votes are expected, will be the last Eisenhower-Taft test before the Republicans gather in Chicago on July 7. The aftertaste of South Dakota might affect the first mouth-waterings in Chicago...
...NORTH DAKOTA-14. Convention gave Taft 8, Ike 1: 5 uncommitted...
...unpledged. ¶ Washington state Democrats picked 32 delegates (with 22 votes), most of whom favor Kefauver, and heard a stem-winder speech by Candidate Robert Kerr. Sample passage: "Eisenhower hasn't committed himself on anything. He is the nation's only living unknown soldier." ¶ North Dakota Republicans chose eight Taft men, one Ike man and five uncommitted delegates to go to Chicago. ¶ North Dakota Democrats elected 16 unpledged delegates (with eight votes). ¶ Hawaii Republicans received assurances that both Taft and Eisenhower would support statehood for the islands, then elected eight uncommitted delegates...