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Arizona's wizened, choleric Clarence Pudington Kelland took it from there. Said Kelland: "Scott . . . is a symbol of the ineptitude and of the betrayal of the Republican Party . . . He was only a ghost wandering around looking for a campaign to haunt." Iowa's Harrison Spangler, onetime national chairman, was next...
Married. Harrison E. Spangler, 66, loyal, longtime GOPolitician, onetime chairman of the Republican National Com mittee (1942-44); and Mrs. Myrtle...
Much of the time Harrison Spangler sat alone and unheeded. One longtime Hoover man cracked bitterly: "I'm not a delegate-I'm a Republican." Another said: "If you've been a Republican more than five years you're through." Ex-President Hoover, recognizing that his political day was over, formally withdrew from active politics. (For months it has been an open secret that Mr. Hoover's Old Guard advice was not welcome in the Dewey camp...
...morning after his acceptance speech Tom Dewey set out to present the new face of the Republican Party to the U.S. To the rear marched old Chairman Harrison Spangler, with a pat on the back, to a post as "General Counsel." Into Spangler's job came Nebraska-born, Yale-educated Herbert Brownell, 40, Dewey's closest political friend, manager of Dewey's winning Governorship campaign...
...long-distance call from National Chairman Harrison Spangler, making the nomination official, had just come through to the Governor's Mansion at Albany. Trim in a grey suit and russet tie, Tom Dewey greeted the newsmen, shaking hands all around, but maintaining an unblinking dignity. To the first man offering congratulations, Tom Dewey cracked: "You mean congratulations or commiseration...