Alabama delegates cheer as convention rejects amendments
Alabama GOP delegates praise the Republican National Convention votes rejecting platform amendments on extremism civil rights and nuclear policy. They see Goldwater strength rising with the South shaping the nomination outlook while debates focus on whether Barry Goldwater or another candidate will secure Alabama’s support.
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Tuscaloosa
Alabama Young Republicans
Alabama
Barry Goldwater
Hutchens
Americans For Democratic Action
Glenn Andrews
Anniston
Goldwater
Wallace
GOP
Martin
South
Charles Chapman
Dothan
Chapman
Goldwater Camp
Woman to be nominated for president first in major party
Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine will be nominated for president at the Republican National Convention. Despite 17 delegate votes out of 1308 she has established hotel headquarters and campaign committees as a hopeful, though her chances are widely seen as unlikely.
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Ross M. Hagen
San Francisco
Alabama
Robert French
Ku Klux Klan
John Birch Society
United States
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
George D. Aiken
Vermont
Senate
John H. Reed
Victoria Claslin Woodhull
National Radical Reformers
Belva Ann Lockwood
Washington
National Equal Rights Party
Geese Overrun Suburban Lakes Sparking Nets Plan
Westchester County conservation officers will use nets this summer to catch Canada geese that refuse to migrate to urban lakes. More than 2,000 geese have settled there after residents fed them, with some locals complaining the birds menace children.
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Scarsdale
N. Y
Westchester County Conservation
Unity call from Eisenhower fuels Republican rally
In San Francisco at the Cow Palace the 73 year old President Eisenhower urged party unity urging Republicans to embrace basic doctrines. He cast unity as strength and told delegates to bank fires of competition while avoiding factional strife.
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San Francisco
Dwight D Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Mamie
Cow Palace
Massachusetts
Edward W. Brooks
Brooks
Eisenhower denounces outside columnists at GOP convention
Former President Eisenhower denounces sensationalists during a Republican National Convention session in San Francisco. John Chancellor of NBC was escorted from the Cow Palace floor after refusing to clear aisles while interviewing Alaska delegates. Chancellor later returned and spoke with the sergeant at arms.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Chancellor
National Broadcasting Co
Cow Palace
Eisenhower
Chancellor
Alaska
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