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When the results were announced this week, Stassenmen wished they had worked harder on the 1,159 delegates, and Dewey-men laughingly wondered why they had been worried. The poll showed these top choice results: Dewey 321; Stassen 286; Douglas MacArthur 157; Robert A. Taft 97; John Bricker 77; Arthur...
Minding the Baby. They were willing to look back over the past four months and review their record. They felt that record needed no apologies. The start had been slow, not to say a little embarrassing, in view of the early January confidence of such Republican leaders as Senator Robert...
From the ranks of Taft's own Republican Party two strong voices spoke. One was that of Senate President "pro tem Arthur Vandenberg. "Being on the jury," he refused to state his own position, but he implied it clearly. It was Vandenberg who read into the record the Compton...
The Republicans' position was this: they wanted to continue the committee (the old Truman Committee), despite the fact that it was not included in the La Follette-Monroney reorganization act, passed at the last session. The man who would head it would be Maine's Owen Brewster, who...
The good faith of the House was promptly tested and proved. Speaker Martin crushed an attempt by one of his own party, New York's professorial W. Sterling Cole, to upset the streamlined rules provided in the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization Act. It was a good omen. The new...