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...days of pre-convention dickering had failed to shake the candidacy of Illinois's Werner W. Schroeder, backed by Old Guardists and anti-Willkieites. But on the first ballot, Schroeder was tied with Washington's hustling, young (35) Fred E. Baker. On the second ballot, Fred Baker jumped into the lead. Then retiring Chairman Joseph W. Martin and the Committee's pugnacious publicist, Clarence Budington Kelland, got to work. In a two-hours' recess, they preached the inevitability of compromise. When the meeting was resumed, Candidates Schroeder and Baker walked down the aisle...
Wendell Willkie had apparently won his battle against the man who once seemed to have the chairmanship in his grasp: Illinois Committeeman Werner Schroeder, darling of the Chicago Tribune, of some of the Old Guard, numerous G.O.P. Willkie-haters and a group who merely liked Schroeder's acknowledged skill as a political organizer. Wendell Willkie did not control enough committee votes to beat Schroeder: all he had to fight with were his convictions and his strength as a symbol of G.O.P. progressivism. At week's end, that seemed to have been enough...
Wendell Willkie, still the great amateur among politicians, once again found himself in the position of having to fight from behind: his opponents had been in the field long before he had, sounding out sentiment, lining up votes. He was guilty of a possible tactical error: fighting Schroeder with a principle instead...
...leading candidate was still Illinois's Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who, although he disclaimed any campaign on his own part, had the backing of a diversified group that included Old Guardists, ex-isolationists, and those who would like to oust Wendell Willkie from a dominant place in the G.O.P...
Neither had Wendell Willkie said anything on Werner Schroeder; but he was working hard on a job of practical politics not normally to his liking. He had no candidate...