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Typical of all the contests, Puerto Rico's troubles began when a convention of six hundred odd selected one slate of delegates and a rump of forty-eight selected another. The legal delegation included one Eisenhower rooter, Mr. Julia, and one for Stassen, Mr. Romani, while the rump electees included two men for Taft. Common to both groups was a supposedly neutral delegate...
...trading concerned which of the other three--Mr. Julia was ignored on account of his absence--should be placed on the temporary roll. At length they all agreed on a deal, authored by one of the Puerto Ricans, which seated Romani from the legal delegation and Blenes from the rump as the second and third men, provided that the latter be the delegation's chairman and its contribution to the all-important credentials committee...
...attorneys were through, the Committee began a raucus internal argument. Eastvold repeated his declaration, and the member from Rhode Island took up the strain. He first suggested that the call was unimportant in this case since the National Committeewoman from Puerto Rico was married to one of the Rump delegates, and then harrangued his colleagues on Gate's part in the deal--accusing the General Counsel of personally arranging yet another "steal." A bellow issued from the audience, and Gates himself marched to the podium. There, on a point of personal privilege quickly granted by the Chair, he defended himself...
...cathedral, housed all kinds of instruments, including an antediluvian phonograph and an organ. All the instruments were automatic. In the gymnasium were all sorts of exercise equipment, including an ingenious machine, made in Battle Creek, Mich., which was supposed (but signally failed) to keep the royal rump from becoming imperial. Farouk's study was a pornographer's paradise, hung with garish paintings and crammed with statuettes of nudes in attitudes conventional as well as unconventional-at least by U S standards. In his desk was a box of "magic tricks," including two pocket radiation counters inscribed: "Measure Nuclear...
...state convention earlier in the week, Mississippi Democrats also voted to back the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket. After the convention adjourned, some dissidents held a rump meeting of "Democrats for Eisenhower," named an independent slate of electors pledged...