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...days of soundings, Darby decided that there was plenty of potential Ike support among the professionals. For the next month, Darby in Kansas City and Scott in Washington spent hours each day on the long-distance telephone. Scott conferred several times a week with Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff. Every time they talked up Ike, the politicians asked suspiciously about Tom Dewey. Was he trying to use Ike as a stalking horse? Where did Dewey really stand...
...only the Republicans would nominate a progressive such as Duff or Stassen...
Professionals from other quarters are coming into Eisenhower's camp. Tom Dewey has already made a strong declaration for Ike (TIME, Oct. 23). Dewey's 1948 campaign manager, Herbert Brownell, has conferred with another top Eisenhower strategist, Pennsylvania's fiery redhead, Senator Jim Duff. One of Duff's jobs, among many others, is to keep Pennsylvania from going over to Ohio's Robert Taft, whom Duff supported in '48, after first trying to put over Arthur Vandenberg...
...want to vote Republican, but I'll be damned if I'll vote for an outfit run by Taft, Wherry, McCarthy, Hickenlooper, Dewey, et al. Let's hear from Duff, Morse, Warren and other modern Republicans...
...Want-Ike faction was hard at work. Such shrewd politicos as Pennsylvania's James Duff, Kansas' Frank Carlson and Harry Darby were saying openly that Eisenhower would definitely run-and as a Republican, not a Democrat. A wealthy New Jersey lawyer named Amos J. Peaslee, who backed Harold Stassen in 1948, was rounding up a group of influential Republicans to talk up Stassen again as a candidate...