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Harrison E. Spangler, Iowa's veteran (20 years) Republican national committeeman, predicted that 20 of the state's 26 delegates to the National Convention would be for Taft. But that was before the Eisenhower ground swell rose in Iowa. As the Ike boom grew, the Taft men pared their claims, finally said they would be satisfied with an even split...
...personal preference had happened to be Senator Taft, would he then have charged that I destroyed the intent of the preferential primary? . . . The unmistakable fact is that the Taft drive has collapsed as a result of successive setbacks in New Hampshire and Minnesota, and because of the tremendous ground swell of Eisenhower support among the independent-thinking people of New Jersey. That is the reason-and the only reason-Senator Taft has withdrawn...
...Ground Swell. Chamberlain credits the Freeman's upsurge to a "political and psychological ground swell in our direction," and he hopes not only to ride it but to help influence it. In the '30s, when Chamberlain was a young stalwart of the left wing, he was well aware of the force exerted on middle-of-the-roaders by the leftish press. "We are now trying," says Rightist Chamberlain, "to pull the middle-of-the-road back to the right." Thus far the Freeman's pull has been hard, but uneven. The magazine has pointed...
...ground swell is strong and deep: Adler, Hutchins & Co. are only part of it. The atom bomb, more than anything else, showed the U.S. that (in Adler's words) "the more science we have the more we are in need of wisdom to prevent its misuse." Reinhold Niebuhr expressed a growing uneasiness in the U.S. conscience over confused and slipshod morality. Arnold Toynbee found wide response when he attacked the easy optimism which regards history as an endless escalator to progress rather than a continuing struggle between good & evil. The Harvard report on U.S. education (TIME...
...been who was a star earning $2,250 a week when Duke was only a prop man, admits that Wayne has kept him in the business for years by getting him parts. "One of the best things you can say about Duke," says Withers, "is that he was a swell guy when he was making 50 bucks a week and he's an even better guy now that he's making half a million a year...