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...Currey faction" of the Young Democrats walked out of the H.Y.D. meeting last night to form a rump club. James C. Currey '52, 1L, unofficial spokesman for the group, claimed he had secured the support of Governor Paul A Dever for himself in a telephone conversation yesterday afternoon...
...their elections the rump club acclaimed Currey treasurer, a position he had held in the H.Y.D. By this action they absorbed all Young Democratic funds, including a $100 check to cover the rally staged last Friday night...
After the rump meeting Currey told the CRIMSON he had spoken by phone to Governor Dever yesterday afternoon, and that the Governor had said he'd do whatever was necessary to help him. Currey said that when he had mentioned Tobin's name, Dever had replied. "Who the hell is Stanley Tobin...
...Committee's Taftites had by no means accepted a passive role, and finally one of them put a motion to unseat Romani, replace him with the third Rump electee, and otherwise leave the delegation as Gabrialson and Gates had bequeathed it. After another wrangle, the Committee passed this motion, and since the neutral delegate whom both groups shared had voted with the Taft men on all issues, this virtually deprived the legal Puerto Rican convention of any representation whatsoever...
...decreed that both factions had to agree on any proposal that he presented to the Convention as a whole, the two North Americans had to figure some way of seating one of the delegations and buying off the other with a face-saving title. Gabrialson first suggested seating the Rump delegation and titling the others Honorary Delegates. The Rump group rose in dudgeon and began arguing that the folks at home would attach far more honor to Honorary Delegates than to the common varsity. The legal delegation maintained that the Rump group had no right to any representation whatsoever...