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...months ago Maryland Democrats went to the polls to pick the man who would run against Republican Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin this fall. Not until last week did they learn whom they had nominated. The winner: Harry Clifton ("Curly") Byrd, the University of Maryland's onetime football coach (1913-34) and longtime president...
...Russian-born Jewish parents. Judge Sobeloff is a liberal Republican whose accomplishments as Baltimore's city solicitor and Maryland's U.S. District Attorney have won bipartisan respect in his state. Eisenhower selected him for the job last October, but a factional feud with Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin caused Maryland's Republican Senator Butler to block the appointment for three months. When Butler withdrew his opposition, the Administration was able to 1) get a good man, and 2) reward Teddy McKeldin, "the man who nominated Ike," with his first high-level Washington patronage...
...Dewey, who is internationally famous, a standout executive, and a veteran leader in the liberal Republican movement. Here & there around the country were others, not so well known beyond their state lines, who were heroes to the home folks, and adept at political infighting. Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, the man who nominated Eisenhower at Chicago, was a seaboard internationalist; Colorado's popular Dan Thornton was a western conservative. Together they reppresented the limits of the Eisenhower faith, but both were enthusiastic Ikemen and both could be counted on to spread the word...
Next day, John Fine of Pennsylvania and Maryland's Theodore R. McKeldin, the only Republican governors who did not attend the conference, announced that they were in full agreement. Undismayed by this unanimous appeal from the Republicans who know how to get elected to executive office, both Gabrielson and Taft stuck to their guns. A reporter reminded Taft that the problem of voting by contested delegates was considered a moral issue by Utah's J. Bracken Lee, one of the Ohio Senator's three lonely supporters among Republican governors. Taft's reply was typical...
...them to his side, he said: "They just don't rush up to you and say, 'Now we're for you.' It just doesn't happen, that's all. It hasn't happened to General Eisenhower either." Commented Governor Theodore McKeldin, favorite-son candidate to whom the Maryland delegation is committed: "The understanding in this state is that I am for Ike. That is a correct impression...