Word: taftman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jamming was done by Joe Ingraham, an experienced Republican hand in Texas, the party's chairman for Harris County (Houston), and until a few weeks ago a staunch Taftman. Said Ingraham: "The Zweifel-Taft group . . . campaigned actively all over the state to get Democrats to come into the precinct conventions and vote for Taft. About a week before the precinct conventions, Henry Zweifel [Texas Republican national committeeman] spoke in Houston and threw out an open invitation to Democrats to come into the Republican precinct conventions. And whom did they elect on the Zweifel-Taft delegation, as delegate for this...
...keynoter, Taftman Douglas MacArthur, thus breaking a not-very-solid tradition of neutral keynoters...
...permanent chairman, Massachusetts' Representative Joseph Martin, no Taftman, but the next thing to it: a devout MacArthur...
...Taftman Jackson saw what was going on, and began wooing Democrats, too, but Ikeman Wisdom had a head start. When it was time for this year's party meetings, Wisdom had the upper hand. But whenever Jackson's faction were outvoted, they bolted, held their own rump sessions. Result: contesting Jackson & Wisdom delegations to Chicago...
...National Committee is pro-Taft, the Ohio Senator is certain to get the breaks in this first test. It does not necessarily follow, however, that all the Taft delegations will be seated by the committee. In Georgia the pro-Ike delegation comes from the Republican faction headed by Taftman Harry Sommers, Georgia's member of the National Committee. The committee is not likely to repudiate Sommers, who has conceded that the Ike forces legally won an overwhelming majority of the delegation...