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...ignore Stevenson's avowed wishes and vote for him anyway. It was a move likely to have immense psychological impact on other delegates, who were sure to feel that canny Illinois politicians would not go so far out on a limb unless Stevenson would accept the nomination. It bore its first fruit the same evening when 32 Pennsylvania delegates announced that the Illinois governor was their candidate; Kefauver had 14 votes in the Pennsylvania caucus, Truman 11, Harriman only...
Unlike the Republican outlook of last fortnight, the pre-convention prospects of the Democratic candidates bore little relation to the votes publicly committed to them. Early this week, the candidates (other than Stevenson) lined up thus...
...wafer dish. Then out they went, as silently as they had come. Paris newspapers estimated their choosy haul at 50 to 60 million francs ($142,860 to $171,430). His missing pictures were not insured, but the Duc de Luynes took it with a shrug. Said he: "What a bore! Just as I was planning to take off for South America...
When their turn came, the Taft forces called no Texans before the national committee. Three lawyers presented the case and bore down hard on the Taft argument: the Texas precinct conventions had been packed with Democrats, whose real motive was to trick Republicans into nominating a candidate who couldn...
...presiding judge agreed. Last week he sentenced Valentin to four years and three months in prison, plus an indemnity of 20,000 pesetas to be paid to Maria. But the 27-year-old ex-marquesa, who had taken time off from her job as a charwoman to testify, bore no grudge. Her work-reddened hands hidden in the folds of a rich, black silk dress, the one remnant of her marquesal wardrobe, she told the court: "Of course, he lied. But it could have been true . . . And for 15 days I was happier than I've ever dreamed...