Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they get together at Chicago they will have a chance to look hard at the arithmetic and the geography of the G.O.P. position. They can ask the California delegates whether Taft has a good chance to carry their state. They can ask the New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Oregon delegates whether Taft has a good chance to carry those states...
...Utah's votes would shift from Taft to Ike. Once back home, however, the Utah delegation was re-corralled by Taftmen, who soon announced that all 14 members were committed to support Taft as long as the Senator had any chance for the nomination. Next day, talking with Oregon delegates, Ike lapsed into one of those circular pronouncements which may seem profound when first heard, and turn out on closer examination to be gibberish. The pronouncement: "You are never going to cut this budget markedly until you get a program of peace working in the world, which comes...
Both were fine horsemen and were considered good, hard-working ranch hands, even though Hugh had killed a conductor on the Oregon Short Line Railroad earlier in the summer, and had a $1,500 price tag on his head. Bank Cashier A. D. Noblitt spoke carefully when they walked in on him and began waving their six-guns under his nose-he had to tell them that the time lock on the vault would not open for an hour and a half...
...last week, the committeemen who like Ike knew that they were outnumbered. The only question was how far the Taft majority would go in naming Taftmen to key positions in the national convention. How far they went was apparent a moment after the session ended. Ikeman Ralph H. Cake, Oregon national committeeman, stomped out of the meeting room and growled: "Yes, they have rigged us, but good...
Earl Warren, who did not do well with his primary forays in Wisconsin and Oregon, ran into trouble in his own state. He won the presidential-preference vote and California's 70 delegates, but he did not win handily; a slate with nothing to offer except opposition to Warren got more than half a million votes. The anti-Warren slate's in-name-only candidate for President was Representative Thomas H. Werdel of Bakersfield. His chief cry: Warren is not really a candidate for President, but wants to deal for a place in a national Republican administration...