Word: gopolitico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Charles Dewey Hilles, 82, Old Guard GOPolitico (chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1912-16); in Speonk, N.Y. He ran William Howard Taft's unsuccessful bid for reelection, was President Taft's personal secretary during his White House term; later, as national committeeman from New York, helped elect Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...
Against the well-intentioned advice of nearly every Kansas GOPolitico, he announced his intention of making his sixth campaign for the Senate. "Young Bill" White, son of Emporia's late sage, was sure he knew why: Alf Landon had put him up to it to bleed votes from Capper's rival in the primary and Landon's archfoe, ex-Governor Andrew Schoeppel. White said so in an Emporia Gazette editorial. In a tearful statement, Capper replied that Young Bill was mistaken; the decision to run was "mine and mine alone...
Howard Lindsay found himself unexpectedly onstage in a new Lindsay-Grouse collaboration, State of the Union, a Broadway-bound political hot potato about how Republicans knock their heads together. Author Lindsay, who pinch-hit as an old-line GOPolitico for two performances, is used to saying his own lines; he played Father in Life with Father for 1,618 performances...
Willkie had perhaps split the Utah delegation; friendly Washington is still uncertain. In Portland, he announced his entrance into the Oregon primary. The most significant result might follow his luncheon with California's Governor Earl Warren, the most potent Western GOPolitico. If Wendell Willkie could snare Earl Warren's support, the whole West might fall into his hands...
Robust Republican Warren has passed other tests, too, in his eight months as Governor: he has cut taxes, set up a reserve to meet California's postwar problems, made many a progressive change in his State's criminal procedures. Many a GOPolitico was thinking of Governor Warren last week as a likely candidate for the Vice-Presidency-perhaps even as a dark-horse Presidential possibility. But Warren, elected with the help of 400,000 Democratic votes, has firmly refused to discuss his political future, and continues to speak of himself as California's non-partisan wartime executive...