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...minority, split the delegation. Lodge succeeded in displacing Brennan as national committeeman with former Governor James C. Shannon. Lodge then withdrew his opposition to William A. Purtell, a Hartford businessman, who was nominated for U.S. Senator. In an atmosphere of uneasy harmony, brought .about by these moves, the Ike slate of delegates was elected...
...Tennessee, the full slate of 28 votes at Chicago was pledged to Native Son Estes Kefauver...
...mark around coal-mining Nanticoke. But he proved to be an aggressive campaigner, charged that the politicians in power were allowing horse books, slot machines and punchboards to run in Nanticoke, was elected mayor in 1949 on an antigambling "Reform" ticket. Last summer he put his own "Independent Citizens" slate up for election in the Republican primary. His opponents replied with a half-page ad in the weekly Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent, making the public charge that Dreier had bought a new car and a $15,000 home shortly after being elected to the $100-a-month job as mayor...
...Rhode Island, the G.O.P. convention elected a full slate of eight pro-Eisenhower delegates...
...Republicans stopped voting, leaving only three active blocs in the room. Still, some of the partyliners, unimpressed with Kesselman's qualifications, jumped the line and voted for Baum; he won, evening the slate at one partyliner and one Southerner...