Word: taftman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegate seats at the Harris County convention. But 146 pro-Eisenhower and 19 pro-Taft delegates were not contested. Even if all contests were settled in favor of Taft, Eisenhower could still have a margin of 146 to 88. Republican County Chairman Joe Ingraham, a fair-minded Taftman, conceded defeat, joined in electing a pro-Eisenhower delegation to the state convention...
Some of the questions are so loaded that a Taftman must rub his hands as he asks them. Most, however, merely cover, controversial issues which every other candidate has discussed already. No matter how Ike answers, the Taft people feel, he is bound to alienate somebody. As he plows through the list, making enemies, they believe that their candidate's chances will grow...
...Chicago Tribune's gruff Colonel Robert R. McCormick, an unswaying Taftman, conferred with Eisenhower for half an hour at the general's headquarters in France. Then reporters asked: Will you support Ike if he gets the Republican nomination? Snorted the Colonel: "I would support the Republican candidate. I supported Dewey, for God's sake...
Outside Chance. The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, a Taftman, looked down his nose at Eisenhower's campaign, quoted an unidentified Ike informant: "This New Hampshire play for Eisenhower has turned out sour and that we'll admit." James ("Scotty") Reston of the New York ("We Like Ike") Times was impressed by Taft's "aggressive campaign." He found it more effective than the politicking in behalf of the absent Eisenhower. Wrote Reston: ". . . What does Taft have that Ike doesn't have? The answer seems to be: 'Nothing...
...polls showed Eisenhower running ahead in the preference race. But he realized what many an outsider did not: New Hampshire is not safe Ike territory just because top Republican brass of the state are in his corner. In the lower echelons of the G.O.P. organization, there is many a Taftman, and Bob Taft is not going to be snowed under. A defeat for Ike or a narrow victory would be a serious blow to the key argument that he is a winner and that Taft isn't. That argument blared last week from 21 billboards along New Hampshire highways...