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...four years later, TIME is again prepared to get the story and tell it. For a review of some of the important pre-convention maneuvering see this issue's cover story on Pennsylvania's Governor, Jim Duff...
Grundy & Co. The leader of one side was Pennsylvania's Governor James Henderson Duff, a strapping, affable redhead, who believes with an evangelist's zeal that the future of the party lies with a progressive candidate. The man who best fitted that description, by Jim Duff's analysis, was Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
...pressure on the large delegations, which hold the key to nomination. If Bob Taft fails to hold his strength, Illinois' Governor Dwight Green, who is eager to be Vice President, might decide to flip over his state's 56 votes to Dewey. Pennsylvania's Governor Jim Duff, who wants Vandenberg to win, might lose to Dewey some of the 40-plus (out of 73) delegates he controls...
Fourth Ballot. Unless Dewey has won on the third, this is Vandenberg's big chance. If Duff and Driscoll have held out against a rush to Dewey through the crucial third ballot, if Massachusetts and California have not deserted their favorite sons, a Vandenberg bandwagon could start to roll. If it does not start here, it probably never will...
Thus the convention hinges on the big-delegation states, including New York if the race goes against Dewey. The men to watch for the vital switches will be Pennsylvania's Duff, California's Warren, New Jersey's Driscoll, Illinois' Green and Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge, a staunch Vandenberg man, who this week was chosen as chairman of the convention's important Platform Committee...