Word: ikemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Names Are Important. Some confident Ikemen recall that Charles Evans Hughes was nominated in 1916 although he was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and never admitted that he was a candidate until he was officially notified that the convention had nominated him. But there is a major difference between then and now. In 1916, no other leading candidate was in the field, gobbling up delegates...
OREGON-18. Oregon delegates will be elected in the Republican primary, May 16, only seven weeks before the convention. Governor Douglas McKay and Senator Wayne Morse are enthusiastic Ikemen. Oregon is a tricky problem for Taft, and his strategists may decide to stay out of the primary...
RHODE ISLAND-8. Ikemen claim delegation, but no votes are nailed down...
VIRGINIA-23. Taft claims the state in the face of hopeful but faint dissent from Ikemen. Strong man in Virginia's Republican Party is National Committeeman Curtis M. Dozier of Richmond. Taft will make a major speech at Richmond in mid-January in an attempt to clinch Dozier...
...late William Allen White) put his Gazette on the line for Eisenhower, "an essential Kansas character." In Topeka, a central Eisenhower-for-President office was opened. It is expected to become the national headquarters, to give the campaign that Midwest, home-state flavor. In Washington, the Ikemen were preparing to open an office, announce a national campaign committee and start a fund drive within two weeks...