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After the meeting broke up, State Chairman Elizabeth Snyder and others-in a parked car-drafted a telegram urging Adlai to run. Party leaders and Democratic clubs in every one of California's 58 counties were asked, by phone and wire, to add their signatures. An impressive array of leaders signed. Before breakfast, on Carmine De Sapio's second day in San Francisco, agitated National Committeewoman Clara Shirpser, who still likes Kefauver, bustled into De Sapio's suite at the Fairmount Hotel to break the bad news: Pat Brown and other top party leaders were holding...
...last week in New York, a newspaper columnist, bill Wallace, who writes in the World-Telegram and Sun, said Meigs was out-played against Cornell by a sophomore named Chris Hatton. This sharp criticism against the versatile Meigs was tantamount to calling McCarthy a Communist as far as the Crimson team was concerned...
...Matthews, Military Pundit George Fielding Eliot, Author (Seeds of Treason) Ralph de Toledano and three others. Columnists Howard Rushmore and Eugene Lyons were let go. All that the editors would say on the record was that they disagreed with Maguire's policies. But the New York World-Telegram and Stm's Pulitzer-Prizewinning Red Expert Frederick Woltman, who knows most of them well, said: "The editors resigned feeling that attempts were being made to introduce anti-Semitic material into the Mercury...
...Knight, whose love for Republicans in general does not extend to each other in particular, had another little tussle for precedence. Asked to introduce Nixon at a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner in San Francisco next month, Goodie Knight found he had a "previous engagement." But he sent Nixon a telegram offering to introduce the Vice President at another Republican rally in Los Angeles where the governor would be the undisputed star...
...campaign next year, was this: "While I have been forbidden to mention this subject by your chairman, I will bring up for a moment the question of one man and one man's value. Now I just want to point out to you that I greatly appreciated your telegram, particularly where you said, 'We like Ike better than ever.' May I return the compliment and say I like the Republican Party more than ever...