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Canada's Liberals held their first national nominating convention in 1919-before that, party leaders were picked in parliamentary caucus-and the leader they picked then has led them ever since. With the retirement of William Lyon Mackenzie King, they will meet next week to pick another leader...
TIME had assigned a reporter to every candidate and important delegation to keep the "smoke-filled room" vigil, and to find and cover every caucus, press conference and "secret meeting." They worked 18-20 hours a day under the hot Philadelphia sun and the hotter 45,000-watt lights of Convention Hall, and about the only thing they missed was sleep. Senior Editor Duncan Norton-Taylor even managed to get around to Dewey's fashion show where, he reports, "the models wore garters with pink elephants on them . . . Furthermore," he added, "who should turn up in the Maryland delegation...
Down on the convention floor National Affairs Writer Bob Baker inadvertently picked up some unexpected information at the close of the second ballot. When the Dewey total was announced, the delegates swarmed into the aisles, carrying Baker along with them until he swirled into a private caucus being held on the floor by heads-together Governors Kim Sigler, of Michigan, Jim Duff, of Pennsylvania, and Senator Raymond Baldwin, of Connecticut, who were trying to decide what to do about Dewey on the third ballot. Pinned against Sigler's broad back, Baker couldn't help overhearing the forthcoming strategy...
Martin's support of Dewey was well known. But he had agreed in open caucus with his Pennsylvania rival, Governor Jim Duff, who was an anti-Dewey and pro-Vandenberg man, to hold the state's delegates together indefinitely and wait for some strategic moment to make their bargain. Now Ed Martin posed, sitting on a sofa, with his arm snugly around a smiling Tom Dewey. Dewey aides announced a press conference for later in the day; the rumor spread that not only Ed Martin but New Jersey's Governor Driscoll would be there. The wise guys...
Bingo! That was what happened some three hours later, although the surrender was more disorderly than planned. Knowland had hoped to put Dewey over when California was called. He called the delegation into a floor caucus, which looked like a football huddle, and told them that Warren had released them. But before the balloting began, Knowland saw John Bricker lumbering up to the rostrum. With none of his usual forensics, John Bricker announced simply that he had a statement from Taft. "I release my delegates," he read from notes, "and ask them to vote for Dewey." Knowland was right behind...