Word: backroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side of the fence John Fine will climb off is a burning question in the G.O.P. today. This lifelong machine politician, a miner's son from northeast Pennsylvania's brawling coal country, almost overnight has become a national figure, the biggest Boy in the nation's Backroom...
This week, as politicians and pundits mulled over what happened in Texas, many had doubts whether the points are that strong in Taft's favor. To seat their Texas delegation in Chicago, the Taft forces will have to drag a spectacle ^of machine control and backroom politics right down before the glare of television cameras and the eyes of 1,800 reporters. Taftmen control the Republican National Committee and probably will have a majority of the Credentials Committee (see box), but when the credentials fight gets to the convention floor, Taft will need a cast-iron grip...
...HANDWRITING IS ON THE WALL NOW, AND MASSACHUSETTS WROTE IT IN BIG LETTERS FOR ALL THE BACKROOM BOYS TO READ AT THE CONVENTION. IF THEY FAIL TO READ IT AND SPIKE IKE, NO AMOUNT OF SOPHISTRY AND HAIR-SPLITTING OR TALK ABOUT PLATFORMS AND POLICIES WILL ERASE THE FACT THAT THE MAJORITY HAVE SPOKEN LOUDLY AND WITH...
HEARTWARMING FAITH IN A MAN WHO HASN'T EVEN CAMPAIGNED YET BECAUSE OF HIS INTEGRITY. LET'S HOPE THE BACKROOM BOYS WILL LOOK UP THE WORD DESTINY IN THE DICTIONARY...
...matter how emphatically Governor Adlai Stevenson says no, many Democratic politicians refuse to believe he isn't saying maybe. With this uncertainty, the Illinois Democratic convention opened last week. After some backroom maneuvering and telephone conferences with the Governor (who was out West making some campaignlike sounds), the convention brought forth a resolution supporting Stevenson for President-if he runs. Then the convention elected 20 delegates-at-large, each with half a vote. (Fifty other delegates, each with one vote, were elected at the Illinois primary last month...