Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the same Guy Gabrielson led the Taft-faction efforts to steal seats at the convention from Eisenhower delegates who had been elected according...
...Taft managers were caught between the highly damaging publicity of the Texas steal and their need for the stolen Texas votes. Texas was in the public eye, but the Georgia contest had received little publicity-for a good reason. The case for the Taft delegation from Georgia was so weak that not even Taft leaders took it seriously. A month ago top Taft leaders had no intention of making a serious fight on Georgia...
...Zweifel's arrival with case and comment reached Houston, there was an immediate reaction from H. J. ("Jack") Porter, head of the Eisenhower delegation from Texas. Said he: "The Taft forces couldn't get enough documentation in the hold of the Queen Mary to justify their brazen steal of delegates in Texas...
...most of the contests, the basic arguments are the same. The Eisenhower supporters charge that Taft-controlled party organizations are trying to steal delegate seats which Republican caucuses and conventions gave to Eisenhower delegates. The Taft forces answer that the Ike delegates were elected by interlopers, in many cases Democrats, who illegally took over Republican meetings...
...vote on the Texas contest would result in 594 for the Ike delegation, 574 for the Taft delegation. This calculation does not take into account Senator Lodge's claim that many Taft delegates will vote against Taft on the Texas issue. Lodge may be right; on the Texas steal issue, he is far more likely to draw votes from Taft delegates than Taft is to get Eisenhower votes...