Word: ikemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grass Roots." When the Ikemen raised the cry that the committee's action was more Taft steamrollering, Ohio's Representative Clarence Brown smoothly replied that what they were seeing was just the "grass roots" at work. Then he amplified: "When the Willkie crowd-the gang that's now behind Eisenhower-did this to us in 1940, they explained it was grass roots from the American people.* When the Dewey crowd did it to us . . . in 1948, they explained it was more grass roots. So what we've just seen is the finest grass roots...
...blow that struck the Ikemen hardest was the committee's choice for temporary chairman. Traditionally, the keynoter is the temporary chairman, but everyone agreed that General MacArthur's lack of experience with political conventions made him an unlikely choice. So the Taftmen's choice was West Virginia's Hallanan...
...managers wildly claimed that, their candidate had picked up 50 Taft delegates in Abilene alone. Such claims were wishful thinking, of which there is a lot in the Eisenhower camp. But in his short first week, Ike had certainly struck a spark in his own followers. Ikemen, who had hoped-before Abilene-that they might win, now fanned across the U.S., convinced that they must...
With that, most of the Ikemen rose and marched out of the Municipal Auditorium. His steamroller-now racing along in high, Boss Zweifel seized the microphone and gloated: "It's wonderful to see you real, wonderful, outstanding, 100% American Republicans out there before me." The convention named an "uninstructed" delegation to the National Convention, but 30 members were for Taft, four for Eisenhower, four leaning toward General Douglas MacArthur...
...community center across the street, Ikemen raised bitter placards reading "Rob With Bob" and "Graft with Taft." Then they opened their own convention with a prayer by the Rev. N. O. Carrington: "We like Ike. God likes Ike. We will nominate and elect him." Shouting Ike instead of aye, the Ikemen instructed their own delegation to the National Convention to cast 33 votes for Ike and five for Taft (from the districts that he really won). Before they adjourned, Harris County Chairman Ingraham shamefacedly walked in to say "I regret the type of campaign that has been waged...