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...Give McLeod cheer for en-Dorrance," the dapper Disciple admitted, "but Sebald facts are that the Fratt boys from Cayuga's Walters are plenty Duff...
...unintimidated nine: Democrats Byrd (Va.) Douglas (ILL.), Ellender (La.), Fulbright (Ark.), Gillette (Iowa), O'Mahoney (Wyo.) and Robertson (Va.); Republicans Duff (Pa.) and Ferguson (Mich...
...statesman's chore done, it became obvious that Tom Dewey was also on urgent political business. He rushed up to Capitol Hill, got a quick lunch and a round of political handshakes, then headed for the office of Pennsylvania's Senator James Duff. In the 1948 Republican Convention, Jim Duff had declared bitterly that he was "for anybody but Dewey." But now the two had one thing in common: they both liked...
...Genuine Draft? To Duff's office came other Ike men: Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, New York's Irving Ives, Kansas' Frank Carlson. Pennsylvania's Representative Hugh Scott had just returned from Europe and a talk with Eisenhower, and they discussed his news...
...with professionals who have a lot of delegates and a yearning for a "real" Republican who will put on an all-out campaign without "me-tooing" the Fair Deal. Ike supporters needed reassurance, and with Scott's news, Dewey & Co. decided they could be given reassurance. Emerging from Duff's office, Tom Dewey publicly planted himself before the waiting reporters, in the role of chief Ike-booster. Had the talk been about Ike? Dewey admitted freely that it had. "We are all for him," said Dewey. What if Ike was too busy...