Word: taftman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: i) Iowa's Hanford MacNider, former head of the American Legion and a combat brigadier general (and D.S.C. winner) in World War II, loyal Taftman in the primary campaign; 2) New Mexico's Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War (1929-33) and thrice-defeated candidate for U.S. Senator...
...more than 33⅓% of the national committee might not vote on other contests). Who told Bricker to make his motion? Chairman Gabrielson, who at that point was apparently thinking about routine, not about Taft tactics. Things were happening so fast that Coleman had to pick the nearest Taftman available to raise the point of order. That was Ohio's paunchy Representative Clarence Brown, who had badly managed Taft's 1948 floor fight...
...Walkout. A gasp of surprise ran through the committee room. Taftman Sommers was walking out on his own organization's delegation. Later, Sommers said that Tucker had been doublecrossing him by gunning for his job as committeeman, and had not let him have as many Taft delegates as he thought he should have. Ikeman Tuttle called Sommers' action: "The worst doublecross that I have ever experienced...
...charge was made that any rules had been broken in the election of delegates favoring Eisenhower. Nobody said that Taftman had been excluded from the Georgia meetings or that the votes were incorrectly counted. The national committee's ruling was based solely on the argument that the Foster group was the "official" Republican Party, and therefore had the sole right to call meetings and conventions. Yet the same national committee had officially told the Georgia Republicans, that the meetings of the Sommers-Tucker group were the ones they should attend. When the Georgia Republicans did so, the national committee...
After the march through Georgia, the Kansas delegate contest came up for hearing. Taftman Carroll Reece whispered to some pro-Taft committee members: "We're going to let them have this one." Ohio's Clarence Brown even made a resounding speech about right and justice, and seconded the motion for the Eisenhower side. The committee voted unanimously for Ike. Number of delegates involved...