Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the same Guy Gabrielson led the Taft-faction efforts to steal seats at the convention from Eisenhower delegates who had been elected according...
Contests decided before the Texas vote may give Ike 15, Taft 17. All of Ike's would come from Georgia, where Taftman Harry Sommers, a member of the national committee, heads the Republican faction whose delegation probably would split 15-2 for Ike on the Texas-seating vote. Neither the national committee nor the convention is expected to repudiate Sommers by accepting the all-Taft rump delegation...
Taftman Jackson saw what was going on, and began wooing Democrats, too, but Ikeman Wisdom had a head start. When it was time for this year's party meetings, Wisdom had the upper hand. But whenever Jackson's faction were outvoted, they bolted, held their own rump sessions. Result: contesting Jackson & Wisdom delegations to Chicago...
...majority of the National Committee is pro-Taft, the Ohio Senator is certain to get the breaks in this first test. It does not necessarily follow, however, that all the Taft delegations will be seated by the committee. In Georgia the pro-Ike delegation comes from the Republican faction headed by Taftman Harry Sommers, Georgia's member of the National Committee. The committee is not likely to repudiate Sommers, who has conceded that the Ike forces legally won an overwhelming majority of the delegation...
...Republicans," who were seated by the last two national conventions, elected one Taft and three Eisenhower delegates-at-large. Together with delegates previously elected at district conventions, that brought the totals to 13 for Ike, 2 for Taft, 1 for Warren, 1 uncommitted. The opposing Georgia G.O.P. faction chose 17 pro-Taft delegates a week earlier. The National Convention will have to decide between them...