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...Succession. "Our country lives in exciting days," proclaimed the party newspaper Pravda last week. All over Russia, from the smallest rayon (precinct) to the capitals of the 16 republics which make up the U.S.S.R., party bosses were picking delegates for the big event. Daily, the press ran stories about Stakhanovite workers doubling and tripling their output in honor of the forthcoming congress. Moscow's Hotel Metropole set aside its entire second floor for the incoming delegates. But, as usual, the preparations were for the most part hidden in secrecy. Even the location of the hall in which...
Edward Schroeder '53, president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, said that the group would try to get the majority of the state republican slate as speakers. The group, he said, plans to do much work on the precinct and ward level, including ringing doorballs...
Goon Politics. The C.I.O. went to work in Wayne County, the heavily industrial base of the state. Into every Detroit precinct C.I.O.-P.A.C. threw its paid and unpaid political workers in order to get their candidates elected precinct captains. They caught the Old Guard Democrats napping, and the coalition wound up in the 1948 state convention with a two-thirds control of the delegate vote. The regulars fought back in 1950, sometimes with nominating petitions salted with forged names. Then the going got rough...
...this organization activity Williams was the indispensable man. His handshaking and backslapping helped to arouse the enthusiasm of precinct and outpost alike. And above all, he beat the Republicans. The pundits give Soapy little credit for winning in 1948, because the G.O.P.'s Kim Sigler was an overconfident pushover. But they marvel at the off-year victory in 1950. It was so close that it took five weeks to determine that Soapy had beaten ex-Governor Harry Kelly...
When their turn came, the Taft forces called no Texans before the national committee. Three lawyers presented the case and bore down hard on the Taft argument: the Texas precinct conventions had been packed with Democrats, whose real motive was to trick Republicans into nominating a candidate who couldn...