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James A. Lebenthal assembled on a wire recorder a 33,000 word history of the tactics employed by Governor Thomas E. Dewey in gaining his second Republican nomination for the presidency. Lebenthal included the transcribed highlights of the G.O.P. convention in Philadelphia last June.
For all of that, he has, like most of his fellow freshmen, already made his mark in the rough & tumble of practical politics. He Was twice mayor of Minneapolis, the man who helped put together Minnesota's humpty-dumpty Democratic-Farmer-Labor ticket, the clever and determined tactician who...
Square Garden). At the state convention last June, Humphrey's regulars overwhelmingly defeated the Wallaceites, who sulkily withdrew to a rump convention of their own. Humphrey himself was nominated for the Senate by acclamation.
* In a speech still treasured by collectors of political palaver. At one point, to establish Lucas' superiority over Henry Wallace, Kelly solemnly told the convention that Senator Lucas was "a member of no thinking group."
For the 200,000 party faithful who showed up at Gandhinagar near Jaipur, the Congress session was an occasion for letting off steam, like a U.S. national political convention. Such relaxation is the exception rather than the rule in the Indian National Congress. The Congress is not only India'...