Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncommitted delegates are waiting for actual poll results. All of them, however, are carefully testing the candidates' effect on public opinion. They listen to the sharp exchanges on the Texas delegation steal, read the speeches and watch Taft and Ike on TV. The delegates know that they can pick a nominee at Chicago without reference to what the people want. But the delegates also know that only the people can pick a President...
Millard Wright had spent 15 of his 38 years in jail when, in an attempt to cure his urge to steal, he had a prefrontal lobotomy (cutting of nerve pathways in the forebrain). That was five years ago (TIME, July 14, 1947). For his possible contribution to medical science, Wright drew a light sentence, and he behaved so well that after 2½ years he was paroled. He got married, worked as a bus washer, and his lawyer and physician thought he was going straight...
...reporters. Taftmen control the Republican National Committee and probably will have a majority of the Credentials Committee (see box), but when the credentials fight gets to the convention floor, Taft will need a cast-iron grip on his delegates to keep some from repudiating the Texas steal...
...blow began as soon as one of McKeldin's telegrams found its way to Washington. Bob Taft's campaign manager, David S. Ingalls, was looking for a way to distract attention from the Taft steal in Texas. Said Ingalls: ''Governor McKeldin's announcement that the expenses of delegates will be paid . . . comes pretty close to efforts at bribery and is only one example of the money poured by Wall Street into the Eisenhower campaign . . . Is the Eisenhower committee promising to pay their expenses to Chicago?" Estes Kefauver's campaign manager, Gael Sullivan, added...
...loose in a treasury vault at Arras, and of a hero who had found neither peace nor prosperity in victory. His substance wasted in extravagant living and rash business deals, De Récy's lust for adventure had led him into a conspiracy with four accomplices to steal the bonds. Soon afterward, the thieves had had a falling out. One of them was picked up trying to cash in the bonds...