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There was one other difference between the Nixon fund and the Illinois fund. Nixon denied that he had used any of his fund for his own personal expenses. The Illinois officials, whoever they were, or are, apparently got their subsidies as personal income to use as they pleased...
...Committee's schedule, Puerto Rico was one of several caselets sandwiched between the Georgia contest and the equally important Texas and Louisiana disputes. Whoever assumed that it would be decided swiftly, however, guessed wrong. For one thing, Puerto Rico was the one case which Committee members had never heard before. This, in addition to the difficulties of the Spanish names, engulfed the Congress Hotel's Gold Room in ignorence and confusion. For another, Clarence Brown, floor leader for the Committee's Taftites, was aware of the deal made by Gabrialson and Gates, and was naturally touchy on the whole question...
...some shifting was going on there. Two previously uncommitted delegates announced they are for Ike, and one important Taft delegate went over with them. Said Virginia's former G.O.P. State Chairman Robert H. Woods: "In this campaign, I feel that every delegate should stand up and be for whoever he may honestly feel will more nearly assure victory ...I shall vote for the nomination of General Eisenhower...
...Washington, State Department officials emphasized that the shift appeared routine. Whoever serves as Soviet Ambassador to Washington may well be only the embassy's titular head, with the real power in the hands of someone more obscure...
...reading Crockford's last week, Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, said: "Most unfair and unseemly." Speculated a high churchman: "Whoever the author is, he belongs to the militant low church. [Moreover], no high dignitary, whatever his views . . . would express himself in so petulant a manner or make petty references to shades of purple . . . These definitely rule out anyone of importance."* Said the Church of England Newspaper (low church) : "Whoever the writer may be, he is a man distinguished by incisiveness of thought and accuracy in the use of language...