Eisenhower backers push for nominating bandwagon at GOP convention
At Chicago convention hall AP dispatch reports Eisenhower backers claim a decisive edge over Taft after late night floor fights over delegates from Georgia and Texas. Taft fights on promising an early ballot. Delegates list Eisenhower 317 Taft 486 Uncommitted 93.
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Jack Bell
Chicago
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Eisenhower
Taft
Georgia
Texas
Republican Platform Attacks Democrats Shielding Traitors
The Republican platform accuses the Truman administration of corruption and shielding traitors in high places. It denounces graft and influence peddling, pledges to end corruption, purge crooks, ensure fair tax enforcement, and restore honest government while opposing federal health mandates and censorship.
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Chicago
GOP
Tme
Eugene D. Millikin
Colorado
Pres
Republican platform calls for lower taxes for small business
CHICAGO The 1952 Republican platform presented to the convention promises small business new lower tax laws and an end to hostility to initiative. It pledges a balanced budget, reduced government spending, and reforms to tax law to avoid overlapping levies while combating inflation through production and fewer price controls.
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Chicago
Resolutions Committee For Convention Action
Republican Party
GOP
U S Protest Over Buenos Aires Office Bombing
The American Embassy planned to urge the Argentine government to investigate the Tuesday night bombing of the U S Information Service office in Buenos Aires. A State Department spokesman said the embassy sent a preliminary report to Washington.
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Washington
U. S. Information Service
Buenos Aires
State Department
Department
Rights Plank Faces Softening At Republican Convention
Southern and Northern Republicans clash over a civil rights plank as delegates weigh a federal focus on discrimination, lynching, poll taxes, and DC segregation. The proposal falls short of 1948 language, lacks a strong enforcement commission, and threads compromise with state and local control.
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Chicago
Resolutions Committee
Mildred E. Younger
Los Angeles
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Irving Ives
New York
Congress
District of Columbia
Oat
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Younger
Armed Services
Ridgway Visits Queen at Buckingham Palace
Gen. Matthew Ridgway supreme Allied commander in Europe paid a 30 minute call today on Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
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London
Matthew B. Ridgway
Europe
Queen Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace
Amputee Soldier’s 2 Day Old Daughter Dies
In Joliet Illinois a 20 year old Korean War veteran Pvt Hubert Reeves suffered quadruple amputations. His two day old daughter, born premature at 3 pounds 6 ounces to Mrs Reeves aged 19, died early today.
Stassen Hints Shift to Ike as Convention Nears
Harold E. Stassen met Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower amid reports he may transfer Minnesota’s 24 pledged delegates and one Colorado vote to Ike. Stassen also planned talks with Taft, while Eisenhower aides predicted an early ballot victory and the general expressed confidence in securing the nomination.
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Chicago
Harold E. Stassen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stassen
Minnesota
Eisenhower
Colorado
Taft
United States
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Massachusetts
Georgia
Texas
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Lodge
Ulysses S&s Grant
Credentals Committee
Police Hunt Last Convict From Dayton
Charleston Miss police with bloodhounds captured Minor Sorber 33 described as master safecracker and the most dangerous of six Ohio convicts who escaped Montgomery City jail days earlier. Another convict John Evans 33 remains at large while four others were captured. one killed himself in jail after robbery of a Memphis grocery store.
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Minor Sorber
L. Y. Griffin
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John O. Evans
Griffin
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Memphis
Tenn
Here
Fred E. Peterson
John Cornette
Robert Jones
Thomas L Werckman
Uproar After Dirksen Attack On Dewey
RELMAN MORIN reports a tense convention scene in Chicago as Sen. Everett Dirksen defended the Taft faction provoking a roar from 12,000 attendees. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey sat cool as rival frictions erupted including a brief scuffle near an Indiana standard and Gov. John S. Fine demanding adherence to recess agreements.
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Relman Morin
Chicago
Texas
Georgia
Sen
Everett Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Taft
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dewey
Court to Review Federal Denial of Passports
The court ruled a hearing is required on a State Department passport revocation. It rejected the government claim that passport issuance and denial fall solely under the executive branch and cannot be reviewed by the judiciary. The decision concerned Anne Bauer, a freelance writer, whose passport was revoked without a hearing in Europe amid government claims her activity was contrary to U S interests.
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Washington
State Department
Anne Bauer
Europe
United States
Truman Signs Arms Bill for 46 Billion Defense Drive
President Truman signed a bill providing 46 percent billion dollars for the nation’s military buildup through next June 30. The measure funds expansion of the Air Force to a formidable 143 wings by mid 194?
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Washington
Truman
Republican Platform Aims To Wave For Peace
The 1952 GOP platform pledges enlightened self interest to wage and win peace. It rebukes Democratic policy as weak, promotes world collective security under Eisenhower and Taft, strengthens the Air Force, reshuffles federal agencies, and supports Israel aid, UN backing, and freeing captive nations while opposing secret understands like Yalta.
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Chicago
Resolutions Committee For Convention Action
GOP
Dwight Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
United States
Korea
Republican Party
State Department
Far East
Stalin
West
Israel
Yalta
United Nations
Red POWs Fight in Nonsan Compound in Korea
Twenty four prisoners were injured when Reds fought each other inside a stockade at Nonsan South Korea. A platoon of American guards restored order without firing a shot. About 130 inmates took part in the riot. Fourteen were evacuated to Taejon hospital, one in serious condition. The incident began at Compound 16 after two groups armed with tentpole clubs attacked others. Some 16 prisoners escaped the enclosure before surrendering to guards. The U.N. Command held remaining Chinese POWs on Cheju Island.
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Korea
Nonsan
Taejon
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U.N Command
Chegu Island
South Korea
Republicans Push Parity Based Farm Plan At Convention
The Resolutions Committee accused the Truman administration of pressuring farmers with subsidies and urged parity prices through federal programs. The GOP platform calls for commodity loans storage and price supports to achieve parity, without fixing a 90 percent level, and endorses a bipartisan farm commission and a constructive soil conservation program with farmer payments for permanent improvements.
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Chicago
Resolutions Committee
Truman
GOP
Congress
Brannan
Federal Farm Commission
Police Think Arson Caused Studio Fire
In Burbank California a second Warner Brothers blaze on the movie lot spanned 25 back-lot acres, destroying nine streets of scenery and prompting officials to suspect arson. Sheriff investigator Ed Hatcher said there are strong indications the fire was incendiary and not accidental, with damage estimates ranging up to six million dollars.
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Calif
Warner Brothers
Ed Hatcher
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Hatcher
Train derails near Cleveland delays luxury service to Chicago
A westbound luxury train derailed near Cleveland today causing an hour and 40 minute delay to the service en route to Chicago. No injuries were reported and the incident did not halt other operations.
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Cleveland
Chicago
Nominations Echo Alphabetical Roll Call Dynamics
The outline describes states yielding in sequence during a nomination process with Alabama first, followed by Illinois where Sen Everett CC Dirk nominates, California to nominate Giov Karl Warren, Colorado yielding to Maryland whose governor Theodore Roosevelt MehKeldin will place Eisenhower’s name before the national convention.
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Alabama
Illinois
Everett CC. Dirksen
Taft and MacArthur Rivalry in GOP Contention
The piece notes Taft supporters privately questioning MacArthur as a potential leader while top Taft aides insist Taft can still win. Paul Walker cites a coalition that upset Taft in Georgia and Texas, with Warren and Stassen delegates aligned with Eisenhower. Maryland Gov. McKeldin backs Eisenhower on first ballot, claiming 24 votes, while Taft backer John Marshall Butler remains confident Taft is still in the race. California delegates hold a caucus chaired by Sen. Knowland.
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Douglas MacArthur
Taft
MacArthur
Paul Walker
Georgia
Texas
Warren
Stassen
Eisenhower
Gov. McKeldin
Maryland
John Marshall Butler
GOP Convention May Nominate Presidential Candidate Tonight
The Republican National Convention may begin by hearing nominating speeches this evening as a National Committee in formation outlines plans. Delegates could start voting soon with a vice presidential pick following, targeting Friday for the nomination.
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Chicago
National Committee Information Office
Eisenhower Warren clash in GOP convention dark horse drift
At the GOP convention tension grows as Knowland hints at nominating Earl Warren for president if rumors fail to sway. Stassen asserts 25 votes and denies coalitions while Taft fights to seat pro Taft delegates. Eisenhower gains momentum as Taft delegates face reversal on state delegations amid a fluid nomination battle. Bobby Locke opens strong in the British Open with a second-round 71.
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St «Ne‘s- On- Sea
England
Bobby Locke
Truman Watches GOP Convention On TV From White House
President Truman sits in on the Republican National Convention by television, praising committee wrangling yet expressing worry that his favored Taft may be beaten. He watched on a large screen, greeted Secretary Acheson after his return from tours, and dismissed McCarthy’s Chicago charges as not his concern.
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Truman
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E. A. Taft
White House
Acheson
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South America
State Department
Taft
Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin
Sen. McCarthy
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