Word: pennsylvanias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also the point of greatest pressure on the large delegations, which hold the key to nomination. If Bob Taft fails to hold his strength, Illinois' Governor Dwight Green, who is eager to be Vice President, might decide to flip over his state's 56 votes to Dewey. Pennsylvania's Governor Jim Duff, who wants Vandenberg to win, might lose to Dewey some of the 40-plus (out of 73) delegates he controls...
Fifth Ballot et seq. If Dewey has failed on the third, and Vandenberg has not shown a commanding upsurge on the fourth, the race will go to the best behind-the-scenes trader-Speaker Joe Martin, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, California's Governor Earl Warren or anybody else on whom the party's leaders can agree...
...Pennsylvania's coach, Rusty Callow, calls them the second best crew he has ever seen. Reading from stern to bow: SAM MANTEL, cox; BILL CURWEN, stroke; PAUL KNAPLUND (captain), 7; FRANK STRONG, 6; JUD GALE, 5; DICK EMMET, 4; TED REYNOLDS, 3; DON FELT, 2; MIKE SCULLY...
...Class of 1948, they are: Alma Cecile Benson of Middletown, Connecticut; Janice Alerta Berg of Brookline; Amy Ruth Cline of Brookline; Helene Pauline Katz of New York City; Sara Murdock Steinberg of Cambridge; Gladys Marilyn Susman of Brookline; Helen Bryna Wiseman of Mattapan; and Sandra Lee Wool of Uniontown, Pennsylvania...
Dirty Foreigners. Two years of fighting had separated North from South with deep, bitter emotions. When youthful John Dooley, a Virginian soldier, compared the "dignified but most courteous" appearance of his hero, General Lee, with the sullen demeanor of the frightened citizens of Pennsylvania, he simply concluded that the Unionists were as different from the Confederates as another "race of people." So it seemed, also, to Gettysburg Housewife Sallie Broadhead, as she watched Lee's vanguard outside her house. The Southerners were "a miserable-looking set" of alien monsters with a "traitor's flag" who pranced barefoot...