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After voting last night in the Union, the freshmen elected a record number of Union Committeemen...
...weeks pass, they will delve deeper into American life. They will study the U.S. education system, U.S. business, what America reads. They will hear talks by a labor leader, the president of a manufacturing company, both Republican and Democratic national committeemen. They will also visit a prison farm, a TV station, a county fair, the Hollywood Bowl...
...good or bad, television at times found itself an active participant in the convention drama. By demanding the right to cover the Credentials Committee session, TV aligned itself with the Eisenhower "fair play" forces; before the committeemen yielded to TV's demands, 10,000 listeners fired in angry telegrams protesting the Taftmen's closed-door rule...
...much of the court ruling before the national committee, Atlanta Lawyer Elbert Tuttle had a sharp retort: "This lawsuit is another evidence of the conniving done by this group when it doesn't seek relief at the proper place ... If a judge in some little county of the committeemen's own state-say Clarence Brown's Ohio-should issue such a ruling, would they pay any attention to it?" Said Tucker, in his brief to the committee: "This small clique . . . simply purported to set up a series of meetings of their own . . . which they are pleased...
When the 46 members of the Republican Convention arrangements committee settled down in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel last week, the committeemen who like Ike knew that they were outnumbered. The only question was how far the Taft majority would go in naming Taftmen to key positions in the national convention. How far they went was apparent a moment after the session ended. Ikeman Ralph H. Cake, Oregon national committeeman, stomped out of the meeting room and growled: "Yes, they have rigged us, but good...