Word: hallecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where's My Tommy?" Rensselaer is the home town of Congressman Charles Halleck, Majority Leader of the House, who had wanted very much to be Vice President. On the platform stood Charlie himself. He was not invited to board the train and he looked more disconsolate than usual when the candidate majestically appeared. But Charlie cheered up later when Mr. Dewey, making a speech at the town's little St. Joseph's College, referred to Congressman Halleck as "one of the oldest friends I have in public life." During the rest of the speech Charlie beamed, clapping...
...money and two for the show; Halleck was promised but Warren will...
...cautious. The day after the President's call, Candidate Tom Dewey refused comment. He had already praised the record of the 80th Congress and declared that a special session would be "a frightful imposition." But the wires from Albany burned with telephone messages to House Majority Leader Charles Halleck in Rensselaer, Ind.; to Speaker Joe Martin at his summer home in Sagamore, Mass.; to other top Republican strategists. When Joe Martin finally spoke up, it was to warn: "There will be plenty of action. Like the boys at Bunker Hill, we'll wait to see the whites...
...lobbies, where rumors flickered through the delegates like wind in tall grass, the word had been that Indiana's Charlie Halleck was the choice. But if Halleck had been promised anything, it had been only a hunting license. In Room 808, the license was promptly torn up. Neither Arthur Vandenberg nor Dulles could accept Halleck's isolationist record as House Majority Leader. Other politicians looked in. Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert came to plead the case of Senator John Bricker. New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith (backed by Driscoll) urged the cause of Harold Stassen...
Brief Revolt. Delegates were confused. Ohio had been nursing hopes for Bricker. Started by Arizona, a movement to nominate Harold Stassen rippled across the floor. Halleck rushed over to Arizona, warned: "You're sticking your necks in a buzz saw." The ripple died. Warren was nominated by acclamation...