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...predominant role they once enjoyed at the University. Two weeks after the Club was founded in 1888, it already had 817 members. In those days the Republicans had to rent a building in Boston to hold all the people who wished to attend their massive rallies. One meeting, in Tremont Temple, attracted 4500 people. In fact, the nearly even division of the University in 1952 between Eisenhower and Stevenson marked the first time in history, except for the freak 1912 split, that the Republicans did not overwhelmingly carry the school in the CRIMSON straw poll...
...that year, the Republicans had a gala public meeting in Boston, with reserved seats in Tremont Temple. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale presided over a collection of notables which included Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, and Elihu Root...
...didn't sound very promising, but the voice insisted that if we came to the 'press-conference,' we would not only get a story, but lots of good Manhattans and a chance to talk to a lot of important people. So we went, to Cobb's Restaurant, 32 Tremont...
...what it thought was the result, Sherwood immediately organized a parade of victory. As the tallest man in Harvard, he became the leader. I can still see him, waving his long arms, shouting some doggerel that he may have composed on the spur of the moment, heading down Tremont Street and turning the corner at Boylston. The next day, when the delayed returns from California changed the entire world's political picture, I was almost afraid to contact...
...first four days, Mrs. Emery's Voice of Audubon had about 500 calls a day. Inevitably, a few odd specimens got on the tape, such as "a pink duck with blue stripes," "a Saltonstall pretending to be a senator," and "two lame ducks on Tremont Street...