Word: postmastership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part of the press asserted, with an air of tolerant wisdom, that Eisenhower was paying a political debt incurred in the 1952 campaign. Actually, any debt that Ike owed Warren could have been paid by a third-class postmastership. At the G.O.P. convention in Chicago last year, Warren's California delegates did cast their votes for the Eisenhower side in the battle of the contested delegations, but that was the proper strategy for Candidate Warren, who was then hoping for a deadlock. When the balloting for President came, California voted for Warren and never switched. In the campaign, Warren...