Word: gabrialson
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...contest's originator, the gentle- man from Massachusetts, gave up for the moment and awaited the nominee's selection. As the Convention's choice was an encouraging one, he held a meeting with Gabrialson and the five Puerto Ricans in a room beyond the podium to decide the dispute, a meeting which, as he put it, "damaned near drowned out the balloting for Vice-President...
...case which Committee members had never heard before. This, in addition to the difficulties of the Spanish names, engulfed the Congress Hotel's Gold Room in ignorence and confusion. For another, Clarence Brown, floor leader for the Committee's Taftites, was aware of the deal made by Gabrialson and Gates, and was naturally touchy on the whole question...
...Committee's Taftites had by no means accepted a passive role, and finally one of them put a motion to unseat Romani, replace him with the third Rump electee, and otherwise leave the delegation as Gabrialson and Gates had bequeathed it. After another wrangle, the Committee passed this motion, and since the neutral delegate whom both groups shared had voted with the Taft men on all issues, this virtually deprived the legal Puerto Rican convention of any representation whatsoever...
Because Permanent Chairman Martin decreed that both factions had to agree on any proposal that he presented to the Convention as a whole, the two North Americans had to figure some way of seating one of the delegations and buying off the other with a face-saving title. Gabrialson first suggested seating the Rump delegation and titling the others Honorary Delegates. The Rump group rose in dudgeon and began arguing that the folks at home would attach far more honor to Honorary Delegates than to the common varsity. The legal delegation maintained that the Rump group had no right...
...Gabrialson then proposed Honorary Vice President of the Convention, a nobler variant of Assistant Honorary Sargent-At-Arms which was handed out to one man in every delegation. This had no more appeal than his earlier attempt, and another boxing match began. The shouting and swinging lasted until Gabrialson made yet another try, Assistant Honorary Vice-President of the Convention. Both sides rose in noizy protest at that point, for it seems that titles carry honor in inverse proportion to length, and neither side was satisfied. During the melee that followed, someone yelled that Blenes was a disbarred lawyer...