Word: pennsylvanias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania's beefy Jim Duff heaved his bulk through the crowd. In all loyalty, Sigler wanted Duff and the rest of the coalition boys to give their O.K. before he released Michigan. He tried to explain to Duff, who stood stony-faced, fanning himself in the heat. Taft's campaign manager, Clarence Brown, oozed through the crowd. New York's Senator Irving Ives came up to underline the futility of further resistance. "What's the point?" he said amiably. "There's no sense...
...gathered over the melon in Room 808 had been summoned by Tom Dewey to select a Vice President. Some were old Dewey partisans-Congressman Leonard Hall of New York; Dewey's John Foster Dulles; National Committeeman Lew Wentz of Oklahoma; Barak Mattingly of Missouri and Mason Owlett of Pennsylvania. Others were days-old allies, men who had thrown their weight behind the Dewey bandwagon when that weight counted most-New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, Massachusetts' Governor Robert F. Bradford, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and the Kansas City Star...
Next day Tom Dewey took charge of the Republican National Committee. In as chairman, succeeding B. Carroll Reece, went 47-year-old Hugh Scott Jr., a three-term Congressman from a suburban Philadelphia "silk-stocking" district.* Scott, a follower of old Joe Grundy, was recommended by Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, to whom Dewey owed much. But that did not mean that Grundymen were going to run Tom Dewey's campaign. That would remain in the hands of precise, able Herbert Brownell...
Easy Beat. Pennsylvania's crew, hitting up an energetic 36, flashed out in front. Cornell was right behind. Ulbrickson's long-armed, long-legged men were using a lot less energy and staying very close. At the mile mark, still doing a smooth 30, Washington was in the lead. Navy's beef-trust crew was up to 34 and not gaining an inch. After two miles, the Huskies stepped up their beat a little and pulled away to win easily by 2½ lengths. California, an old rival, was second...
...crews of California, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, M.I.T., Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Rutgers...