Word: matings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were running for office myself," said Nixon in Denver last week. "I am out here to help General Eisenhower get elected." No passive running mate, Nixon has been conferring with Eisenhower steadily during recent weeks, has offered firm and sometimes critical suggestions on how the campaign should be run. Nixon himself is preparing to travel up & down the land, particularly to places that Eisenhower will not cover. Nixon will go to New Hampshire this week, also intends to campaign in Republican Maine-a state, like a woman, he thinks, should never have the feeling of being taken for granted...
Eisenhower had some ideas about the sort of fellow he wanted for a running mate: a young, "forward-looking" man, and someone who would help him get along with Congress. Among others, he considered Senators Knowland and Nixon, Governors Warren, Sherman Adams (New Hampshire), Val Peterson (Nebraska), Dan Thornton (Colorado). Brother Milton Eisenhower plugged for Taft; although Eisenhower advisers thought that Taft 1) would be bad for the ticket, 2) would not accept anyway. Eisenhower left the final decision to a meeting of his advisers, presided over by Herbert Brownell, at the Hilton, on the afternoon of his nomination...
...Seltzer of the Cleveland Press climbed right out on a limb with a Page One story headlined: IKE WILL WIN ON THE 3RD OR 4TH BALLOT. Two days later in Chicago, Publisher John Knight predicted in the Daily News that Ike would be the candidate and Nixon his running mate. If he was wrong, said Knight, he would "just have to go off fishing somewhere...
Neither Coolidge nor his running mate, Charles Gates Dawes, attended the 1924 Republican Convention, but both listened to it on the radio. TIME reported in its issue of June 23, 1924 that a new loudspeaker had been installed on the White House radio set, said: "The President left the executive offices to go to his study to hear the nominating speech of Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton. At luncheon, he and Mrs. Coolidge heard the news of the nomination. He said nothing, but afterwards he went for a walk...
Back in his nest Puffinus found that he had made it just in time. One of the three eggs in the nest, watched over by his mate in his absence, had already hatched; the others were on the point of hatching...