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...Scene. But Gardiner's announcement made the convention a real contest. It gave hope to all candidates, including such dark horses as Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson and Brooke Claxton, Paul Martin, Clarence Decatur Howe, Douglas Abbott and Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power. Because of mechanical differences, Canadian conventions are not so easy to swing or control as U.S. conventions: the delegates vote individually by secret ballot; no candidate may rise to withdraw and publicly switch his support to another...
Frank Treatment. In Decatur, Ill., Wallace Henricks and Robert & Richard Hodges were arrested for carefully spreading a neighbor's car with mustard...
Their official duties done, many of the White House's guests slipped into sleek black limousines and were shuttled across Jackson Square to Decatur House, the gas-and candlelit mansion of Mrs. Marie Oge Truxton Beale, one of the capital's omnipotent hostesses...
...Decatur House there was no music. But there was hot borsch, hot lobster pilaff, turkey and cheese sandwiches, orange sherbet, pastries and domestic champagne. No introductions were needed. It was a gathering of old friends...
Direction. To expand this industrial economy, the government granted sweeping powers to Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe, a 61-year-old, U.S.-born engineer who bossed Dominion industry during...