Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortness of time was on the side of the House wreckers, and they set to work with a will. By their silence; Speaker Joe Martin and Majority Leader Charley Halleck did much to encourage them, little to whip them into line...
...that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...
There was one lull before the big political storm. The major candidates went to suburban Rosemont for a "purely social meeting" at the home of Martin W. Clement, bony, white-haired president of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...clock Saturday night, Bob Taft, taking things firmly in hand, walked over to the House cloakroom to talk turkey to Speaker Martin. While Martin recessed the House, G.O.P. leaders trooped in to his office and slammed the door. On the floor, House members broke into song; a barbershop quartet sang Let the Rest of the World...
...before, in Philadelphia, he had loosed one warning shot toward Ed Martin, who was trying to tie up the delegation in a holding action until he released them himself. Said Duff: "That's the kind of stuff that made the Pennsylvania delegates so ridiculous in 1940 . . . Before they realized what was going on, Willkie had the nomination...