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...case on the grounds that the National Committee had not heard it. The Chairman, who had been selected by a partisan majority, agreed instantly, which precipitated a lusty debate. Massachusetts' John Heselton, Brown's counterpart in the Committee's pro-Eisenhower conclave, moved to overule the Chair. Washington's Eastvold declared loudly that he thought it ridiculous for the steamroller to crush one single delegate. Brown winched, rose in protest, and moved adjournment estensibly to allow Committee members their evening victuals. Again, the Chair readily granted his motion...
...each side were few and simple. The Julia group claimed to be the electees of the true convention, while the Blenes group based its case on the fact that the National Committee's call came to them. Once the attorneys were through, the Committee began a raucus internal argument. Eastvold repeated his declaration, and the member from Rhode Island took up the strain. He first suggested that the call was unimportant in this case since the National Committeewoman from Puerto Rico was married to one of the Rump delegates, and then harrangued his colleagues on Gate's part...
...important case history presented was the Georgia delegates contest. Taft members of the credentials committee based their case almost entirely on the decision of a Democratic judge in Georgia (TIME, July 14). Chief Eisenhower spokesman on the committee was the state of Washington's lanky young (32) Donald Eastvold, a former state senator who is his party's candidate for attorney general. Eastvold asserted that the convention was its own supreme court in party matters, and both the 1944 and 1948 Republican Conventions had recognized Georgia delegations led by W. Roscoe Tucker, who now headed the pro-Eisenhower...
Evidence & Audience. The fight put up in the committee by Eastvold and his col leagues was a warning to the Taftmen of what was to come on the convention floor. On the next case - Louisiana's 13 dele gates- the Eisenhower group put up an other strong argument. Backed up by an impressive array of charts and witnesses, John Minor Wisdom, chief of the pro-Eisenhower delegation from Louisiana, asserted that John Jackson, head of the Taft delegation, had set up rump meetings and then rigged the state credentials committee so that it was worse than a kangaroo court...