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...showed up at the Moroney home with groceries and took two-year-old Mary Agnes Moroney "around the corner" to buy her clothes. She never came back with the child. The last word about Mary Agnes came a week later. An unidentified woman wrote the Moroneys that "my cousin. Julia Otis" had taken the girl in grief over the loss of her own baby, and gone to California, but would bring her back "safe & sound...
Typical of all the contests, Puerto Rico's troubles began when a convention of six hundred odd selected one slate of delegates and a rump of forty-eight selected another. The legal delegation included one Eisenhower rooter, Mr. Julia, and one for Stassen, Mr. Romani, while the rump electees included two men for Taft. Common to both groups was a supposedly neutral delegate...
Minus Mr. Julia, who was detained by some aspect of his formidable commercial pursuits, both delegations travelled to Chicago and two days before the Convention began reported to headquarters. There the National Committee's general counsel, Ralph Gates, reminded them of a bit of red tape which they had left loose-ended: they had not registered officially twenty days in advance of the Convention, an oversight which according to Party rules could cost them their seats if the party leaders wished. A bargaining session was in order, and since the National Committee had already adjourned, Gates and Gabrialson decided...
...delegate belonging to both groups was seated of course, and the trading concerned which of the other three--Mr. Julia was ignored on account of his absence--should be placed on the temporary roll. At length they all agreed on a deal, authored by one of the Puerto Ricans, which seated Romani from the legal delegation and Blenes from the rump as the second and third men, provided that the latter be the delegation's chairman and its contribution to the all-important credentials committee...
...Julia, whom the Puerto Rican convention had elected unanimously, arrived a day before the proceedings began, unaware that he had been dealt out. It was at this point that an Eisenhower enthuiast from Massachusetts learned of the deal, collected the unseated delegates, and persuaded them to file a contest. The Secretary of the National Committee, who exclusively had the right to certify disputes and who had been thoroughly jostled by the steam roller in the performance of her task, agreed that a contest existed and that it should be certified to the Credentials Committee...