Word: spangler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle lines were drawn. Behind Gabrielson were ex-Willkieites Ralph Cake of Oregon and Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts, hard-shelled ex-Chairmen Carroll Reece and Harrison Spangler, Minnesota's indefatigable Stassenite Mrs. F. Peavey Heffelfinger. Behind Dewey were many Westerners who resented the idea of a Wall Streeter in the chairmanship. Also behind Dewey was old Joe Grundy...
Arizona's wizened, choleric Clarence Pudington Kelland took it from there. Said Kelland: "Scott . . . is a symbol of the ineptitude and of the betrayal of the Republican Party . . . He was only a ghost wandering around looking for a campaign to haunt." Iowa's Harrison Spangler, onetime national chairman, was next...
Married. Harrison E. Spangler, 66, loyal, longtime GOPolitician, onetime chairman of the Republican National Com mittee (1942-44); and Mrs. Myrtle...
...morning after his acceptance speech Tom Dewey set out to present the new face of the Republican Party to the U.S. To the rear marched old Chairman Harrison Spangler, with a pat on the back, to a post as "General Counsel." Into Spangler's job came Nebraska-born, Yale-educated Herbert Brownell, 40, Dewey's closest political friend, manager of Dewey's winning Governorship campaign...
...long-distance call from National Chairman Harrison Spangler, making the nomination official, had just come through to the Governor's Mansion at Albany. Trim in a grey suit and russet tie, Tom Dewey greeted the newsmen, shaking hands all around, but maintaining an unblinking dignity. To the first man offering congratulations, Tom Dewey cracked: "You mean congratulations or commiseration...