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Meanwhile the trek to Chicago was on. National Chairman Harrison Spangler took up quarters at the Stevens Hotel. Dewey managers streamed out of New York; California's keynoting Governor Earl Warren boarded a special car loaded with West Coast GOPoliticos. In Chicago's cavernous stadium, 25 blocks from the Loop, workmen tacked up flags and bunting, strung 600 miles of special wire, while the genial host, Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly, set up an economical sign that would serve to welcome the Democrats...
...whole thing boils down to this: we don't want a postwar world full of misery and unemployment, culminating 20 or 25 years from now in a third World War. And my friends and I definitely do not believe that the kind of negative statesmanship displayed by Spangler and C. Budington Kelland and almost the whole Republican Party is a guarantee of their ability to try and provide the kind of good world we feel entitled to after what we have gone through in two campaigns so far, and this thing isn't over yet by a damn...
...keynote their national convention next June 26, Republicans last week picked a prime, ripe, sun-kissed man: California's able Governor Earl Warren. The choice was a surprise to many a GOPster-and a happy outcome for National Chairman Harrison Spangler...
Proposed by his own committeeman, Earl Warren got early support from Texas' redhaired Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, the South's most potent Republican. Chairman Spangler seconded the motion. Representatives of the Dewey and Bricker camps nodded agreement. In the face of such agreement at the top, all other candidacies collapsed. Earl Warren was chosen unanimously...
...lifetime friend of Henry Agard Wallace, Anderson has snapped at New Deal farm policies. But the Anderson bite is most painfully remembered by Iowa GOPsters. At a 1940 dinner attended by Cedar Rapids' Harrison Earl Spangler, now national Republican chairman (TIME, Feb. 14), Anderson got nettled by ques-tions as to how farmers would vote, exploded in his deep bass that they would never go with the G.O.P. so long as it was run by Spangler-type men. His Iowa friends have lately noticed in Anderson's "Out on the Acres" column a leaning toward conservatism, see election...