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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Convention. There were many imponderables. For one thing, no trainer or stable manager had complete confidence that his entry could be brought home in front with the needed 548 delegates (a simple majority of the 1,094 total). For another thing, while it looked like a Dewey-Vandenberg horse race on form, one of the entries was probably not going to start running until about the three-quarters pole. But handicappers agreed, almost to a man, on the way the race would probably be run. The consensus...
Third Ballot. This will be the make-or-break point for Dewey. He must either get far ahead, far enough never to be seriously challenged, or he loses the race. The swing to Vandenberg is the test; it may well be started by big blocs of votes from Stassen's following. This is 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...
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...
Thus the convention hinges on the big-delegation states, including New York if the race goes against Dewey. The men to watch for the vital switches will be Pennsylvania's Duff, California's Warren, New Jersey's Driscoll, Illinois' Green and Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge, a staunch Vandenberg man, who this week was chosen as chairman of the convention's important Platform Committee...
Three weeks ago, a prosperous Salisbury, Mo. dentist, Dr. H. H. Brummall, wrote to his fellow Missourian Harry Truman, suggesting that he withdraw from the presidential race. The reply, which was released to the press last week, was not only indicative of the state of the President's mind but also characteristic...