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...been lifted up by invisible strings, Tom Dewey appeared on the platform, from the cool, little room below the speakers' stand. He looked cool and calm, obviously happy. He waved, brought his wife forward to share the ovation, waved again, shook hands with John Bricker. Calmly, efficiently, he took quick stock of the microphones, the manuscript-holder, the clock. He did not encourage any demonstration, but the crowd roared...
...Have Met the Enemy. . . ." It had not been so cut & dried at first, while other hopefuls still had hope. Handsome John Bricker, tailor-fresh in a blue tropical suit, arrived in town to the strains of Beautiful Ohio from his own brass band. But three days later, jarred to the heels when Illinois caucused and threw its strength to Dewey, the Bricker forces held a desperate eleventh-hour strategy meeting...
...late. For Tom Dewey's men were not calling but receiving. Harold Stassen's men sat dutifully and dourly around hotel lobbies, just in case a freak bolt of lightning should strike. John Bricker fought on, he spoke his familiar views with familiar vigor at a jampacked press conference, provided the only good bar for thirsty newsmen. His managers buttonholed and cajoled tirelessly. But hoopla was not enough in Chicago in June 1944. The Dewey nomination rolled...
...last preconvention Gallup poll among Republicans, Dewey's strength fell 7%, Bricker's went up 3%, in the past month. But Dewey still had an overwhelming...
...G.O.P. Convention had attracted a swarm of moths, buzzing and beating their wings. Some appeared before Taft's committee; others simply hired a hall. A handful of Democratic malcontents, grandiosely naming themselves the American National Democratic Committee, assembled on the fringe of the Convention, trying for a Byrd Bricker ticket, but died of avoidance. "General" Jacob S. Coxey, sans army, argued for his own free-wheeling fiscal plan. Gerald L. K. Smith, followed by a shrill covey of "We the Mothers," took over the Stevens ballroom while the Chicago Symphony orchestra was tuning up on the stage. Smith...