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...tired-eyed Texan named Henry Zweifel stepped off a train at Chicago's Dearborn Station one day last week and took a yard-high, safelike steel filing case in tow. In the case, said Taftman Zweifel, were "more than 1,000 documents" to support his arguments that his Taft delegation from Texas should be seated in the Republican National Convention. He had watched over the case all night in his room on the train, he said, so no one would get away with the evidence. When word of Zweifel's arrival with case and comment reached Houston, there...
...jamming was done by Joe Ingraham, an experienced Republican hand in Texas, the party's chairman for Harris County (Houston), and until a few weeks ago a staunch Taftman. Said Ingraham: "The Zweifel-Taft group . . . campaigned actively all over the state to get Democrats to come into the precinct conventions and vote for Taft. About a week before the precinct conventions, Henry Zweifel [Texas Republican national committeeman] spoke in Houston and threw out an open invitation to Democrats to come into the Republican precinct conventions. And whom did they elect on the Zweifel-Taft delegation, as delegate for this...
Ingalls the Dave, Zweifel and Hallanan...
...Stearns1 Walk. The stories of what had happened at the precinct and county level fell into a definite pattern. Harris County (Houston) was typical. Among the pro-Taft rump sessions was one in the home precinct of the Zweifel National Committeewoman, Mrs. Carl C. Stearns. After a big majority of the 175 voters at the regular caucus went for Ike, Mrs. Stearns, her husband and 25 other Taft supporters walked out and held their own clambake. This and other rump sessions in the precincts brought about contests for 69 delegate seats at the Harris County convention. But 146 pro-Eisenhower...
With that, most of the Ikemen rose and marched out of the Municipal Auditorium. His steamroller-now racing along in high, Boss Zweifel seized the microphone and gloated: "It's wonderful to see you real, wonderful, outstanding, 100% American Republicans out there before me." The convention named an "uninstructed" delegation to the National Convention, but 30 members were for Taft, four for Eisenhower, four leaning toward General Douglas MacArthur...