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...four years later, TIME is again prepared to get the story and tell it. For a review of some of the important pre-convention maneuvering see this issue's cover story on Pennsylvania's Governor, Jim Duff...
Other TIME correspondents will join these forces at Philadelphia. They are the men who have been covering the campaigns of the leading Republican candidates (e.g., the Chicago office's Jim Bell, who has been with Harold Stassen; Boston's Jeff Wylie, who will be with Governor Dewey, San Francisco's Fritz Goodwin, who arrives with Governor Warren), and Frank McNaughton, our chief Congressional correspondent and chairman of the Periodical Correspondents' Association executive committee, who has been close to Senators Vandenberg and Taft...
Emphatic Approval. Others quickly chimed in. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey issued a statement backing the full appropriation. So did California's Governor Earl Warren. Presidential candidate Harold Stassen rushed to Washington to plead with Congress not to "tarnish the national honor of our country." Secretary of State Acme Marshall declared that "the crux of the whole affair [is] confidence in the integrity of leadership of this country...
Grundy & Co. The leader of one side was Pennsylvania's Governor James Henderson Duff, a strapping, affable redhead, who believes with an evangelist's zeal that the future of the party lies with a progressive candidate. The man who best fitted that description, by Jim Duff's analysis, was Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
Beginner's Luck. But the big split between Jim Duff and the Grundy-Owlett group was a fight for state control which had been raging ever since Big Jim Duff sat down in the governor's chair. For years Joe Grundy had run the state through his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, founded on and dedicated to the principle that what's best for industry is best for the state. Jim Duff had another theory: that capitalism thrives best when it is not just the protector of entrenched wealth, but serves all the people equally...