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...that he would win 19 or 20 of the state of Washington's 24 delegates. Then the Eisenhower forces went to work. They turned up last week in Spokane with a solid majority of the state convention delegates. The Taft minority threatened to walk out and hold a rump convention of their own. After ten hours of the stormiest politicking the state could remember, the issue was settled by the Ike majority electing 20 delegates, granting 4 to Taft...
...Taft's Southern armor in ten district conventions. Results: ten delegates for Ike, one for Taft, one for Warren, one uncommitted. ¶ In Louisiana, where Eisenhower supporters tried to outmaneuver the pro-Taft party leaders, Republicans split wide open and wound up in a whole series of rump sessions. Best pattern that could be drawn out of the post-convention confusion: eight delegates in dispute, two for Taft conceded by Eisenhower forces, five for Ike not disputed but not yet conceded by the Taft...
...twelve years). But 75 of the 157 delegates to the district convention came to Hays pledged to vote for Taft men. Carlson's home county, Cloud, sent two delegations. Disgruntled Taft men had stalked out of the county convention, which was pro-Eisenhower, and named their own rump delegation...
...Somebody is always on top, riding so carelessly and beautifully, half around in his saddle, with one hand on the horse's rump. (page...
...riding so beautifully and carelessly, half-around in his saddle, with one hand on the horse's rump...(page...