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...Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff roared: "As an umpire we'll have a man who is already a player in the game." Campaign Manager Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. speculated that he might take a megaphone to Chicago, in case Hallanan refused to let Ikemen use the microphones. Taftmen on the arrangements committee, said Lodge, had used "shyster tactics...
...lines from the Ike headquarters in Washington carried a steady flow of long-distance calls to delegates. The Ikemen realized that the Taft "arrangements" in Chicago would have their greatest effect on delegates who want only to be with the winner. They might get just the impression that the Taftmen wanted them to-that Taft cannot be stopped...
...Minnesota's wonder boy Harold Stassen was keynoter and temporary chairman, then startled Taftmen by becoming Willkie's floor manager...
...party rule which says that arguments about district seats must be settled by state conventions or committees, and that only delegate-at-large contests can be considered at the national level. The horrified Ikemen pointed out that their complaint, in practically all cases, has been that Old Guard Taftmen controlling state organizations are trying to freeze out Eisenhower delegates. The committee's action, they said, was letting the accused judge their own crime...
...Ones. The committee did not get around to settling the seven contests. Instead, it created two more. It decided that one previously uncontested district convention was illegal because it had not been advertised properly. On that basis, it unseated the two Wisdom-Eisenhower delegates, named Jackson-Taftmen in their place. Next week the committee is to meet again to act on the seven contests. No one in Louisiana has any doubt about the outcome: in all cases, it will decide for the Taft delegates...