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...told Bob Hannegan and Frank Walker that Jimmy Byrnes was not acceptable to P.A.C. Reasons: 1) he is a confirmed Southerner; 2) as OWMobilizer, he has held wages down. Hillman and Murray then went a good deal farther. No Southerner, they said, would get P.A.C. backing. Jimmy Byrnes gracefully withdrew. P.A.C.'s pow er blossomed fabulously...
...Truman's 125, with seven key states "passing" (waiting to see which way to jump). Then Ed Flynn brought in 74½ New York votes, and Truman went ahead for the first time. The score: Truman 246; Wallace 187. Then Favorite Son Bob Kerr, Governor of Oklahoma, withdrew his name: 22 more votes for Truman...
With Truman holding a narrow lead, 477½-to-472½, the bosses could wait no longer. Alabama's Bankhead withdrew his name, threw 22 votes to Truman. South Carolina switched all 18 votes to Truman. The galleries howled and screamed. Indiana's huge Boss Frank McHale withdrew Paul McNutt's name. Maine came over to Truman. "We want Wallace!" roared the galleries...
...group has not yet adopted a name, collects no dues (each member pays for his own breakfast). It grew out of a discussion between Dr. Frederick George Niemand and District Attorney Edmund ("Pat") G. Brown. Dr. Niemand formerly belonged to the somewhat larger San Francisco Breakfast Group, but withdrew because "there were too many ministers around and the thing got formal." The Thursday group bars parsons. Reason: they might monopolize the discussion...
...alone and unheeded. One longtime Hoover man cracked bitterly: "I'm not a delegate-I'm a Republican." Another said: "If you've been a Republican more than five years you're through." Ex-President Hoover, recognizing that his political day was over, formally withdrew from active politics. (For months it has been an open secret that Mr. Hoover's Old Guard advice was not welcome in the Dewey camp...