Convention Notes Chicago at Ike Taft Warren rally
The piece describes the early stage of the Republican national convention in Chicago with bands badges banners and ballyhoo. It notes Eisenhower Taft and Warren backers cards and buttons and mentions sightings of Stassen Taft Warren and Ike at the Palmer House and Iowa headquarters.
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Chicago
Ed. Hicklin
Wapello
Eisenhower
Iowa
Muscatine
William O. Weaver
Palmer House
Taft
Earl Warren
California
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Senator Taft
Ohio
Hilton Hotel
Stassen
Warren
Marty Snyder
Philadelphia
Louisa County
Roy Pierce
GOP
R. R. Goad
M. C. Green
Wapello Republican
Iowa Test Not Direct Vote On Candidates
Iowa Eisenhower supporters claimed a 17 to 9 margin in the first sentiment test among the 26 delegates at the Republican convention. The issue focused on preventing contested delegates from voting on seating, not a direct Taft Eisenhower choice.
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Chicago
Iowa
Eisenhower
George M. Faul
Des Moines
Ike Boosters
Ernest Palmer Jr
Fort Madison
Taft
Hickenlooper
Ohio
Dwight Eisenhower
Iowa Newsmen Cover Republican Sessions in Record Numbers
Veterans of national political conventions report Iowa press coverage at a peak for a Republican session. Lead editors and reporters from Mason City Globe Gazette Davenport Times Cedar Rapids Gazette Muscatine Journal Ottumwa Courier and Burlington Hawk Eye Gazette are present, with Des Moines Register and Tribune staff directing support from Washington.
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Chicago
Iowa
W. Earl Hall
Mason City Globe Gazette
Fred Bills
Davenport Times
W. A. Coperly
Davenport Democrat
Harry E. Boyd
Frank Nye
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Walter Russell
Muscatine Journal
Robert Beck
Centerville Lowegian
Robert Hogan
Iowa Daily Press Assn
Fred Woodward
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dave Denton
Waterloo Courier
C. S. Johnston
Ottumwa Courier
C. W. Moody
Burlington Hawk-Eye Gazette
Gardner Cowles
Des Moines Register and Tribune
C. C. Clifton
George Mills
Fred Lazell
Cliff Millen
Mary Baldassari
Howard Swift
Washington
The
Register and Tribune
Fletcher Knebel
Marr McGaffin
Richard Wilson
Dick Yoakum
KCRG
Otto Weber
WHO
Russ van Dyke
KRNT
Dick Cheverton
WMT
Gerald Bogan
Iowa Republican Committee
Girl Dies of Polio in South Sioux City
An 11 year old girl Joan Verzani daughter of Mrs Joseph Verzani died of polio late Saturday night at a hospital in nearby Sioux City.
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Sioux City
Sioux City, Neb
Nere
Joan Verzani
Joseph Verzani
Eisenhower vows to hit hard at errors without scraping dirt
Eisenhower told the Florida delegation at the Republican convention he would strike at Democratic errors but not dig dirt. He presses an all or nothing bid to secure the GOP nomination as Taft and Warren watch and hints at rules on seating contested delegations.
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Chicago
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Florida
Taft
Ohio
Warren
California
Californian
Barkley to Fight For Nomination
Vice President Barkley at 74 announces he will pursue the Democratic presidential nomination. He previously said he would accept it but not seek it, yet says pressure from friends nationwide led him to become an active candidate.
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Washington
Barkley
Handclasps and smiles as wives campaign for nominees
Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower and Mrs. Robert A. Taft campaign beside their husbands in the Republican presidential race. Mrs. Taft endures a wheelchair campaign after a stroke, while Mamie Eisenhower greets crowds and enjoys a song written for her by Jimmy Dodd.
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Chicago
Dwight Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Senate
Martha Taft
Rep
Frances Bolton
Ohio
Mrs. Taft
Mamie Eisenhower
Jimmy Dodd
Los Angeles
Mamie
Glee Club
Purdue University
Eisenhower
Eiserhower
America
Our Land
Taft to fight seating rule change in convention
Senator Taft held a news conference in Chicago stating he will oppose a proposed rule change backed by Eisenhower forces. He claimed six hundred seven or eight pledged votes and said his front runner position remains firm. He called the seating reform hopelessly complicated and rejected compromise proposals from Lodge.
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Chicago
Taft
Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Revote Planned on Wilton School Addition
Wilton voters who approved a school addition and land purchase last December must recast ballots. The local school board set July 30 for the revote after a legal notice technicality flagged by Chapman and Cutler, Chicago bond attorneys, prompted the new election.
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Wilton
Chapman and Cutler
Chicago Bonding
Taft Ike foreign policy plank signals GOP platform
Dulles reports Eisenhower approved a Republican foreign policy plank framing Truman errors as tragic and urging Asia last critique. The plank endorses free world security, criticizes Yalta Teheran Potsdam, expands aid to nations behind the Iron Curtain, and favors tariff moderation while protecting jobs. Farm and labor planks also evolve toward business union dialogue and supportive price policies.
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Chicago
John Foster Dulles
Dwight Eisenhower
Dulles
GOP
Millikin
Eisenhower
Taft
Russia
Yalta
Teheran
Potsdam
Truman
Farm Plank Group
Congress
600 Lose Lives Over Weekend
More than 600 Americans died violent deaths over a four day Independence Day weekend. Traffic accidents caused 346 deaths, drownings added 185, and miscellaneous accidents 69. Fireworks contributed two deaths as the holiday period ended.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Quick Seating Showdown Opens GOP Convention in Chicago
At convention hall in Chicago the Republican delegates begin a bitter floor battle over contested delegates between Taft and Eisenhower forces. Compromise efforts collapse as Taft signals readiness to fight. Backers gauge which candidate will win the nomination.
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Chicago
Taft
Eisenhower
Sen. Taft
Dwight Eisenhower
Convention Hall Clash Over 1952 Rules Splits Delegations
At Chicago seven Taft and Eisenhower camps clash over conventions rules as Bricker moves to adopt 1948 rules and Eisenhower backers push a fair play rule allowing state contest votes to decide seating. Pennsylvania and New Jersey show support. Maryland Gov McKeldin shifts toward Eisenhower with a likely majority of Maryland's 24 votes.
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Chicago
Bricker
Ohio
Rational Committee
Two Money Bills Force Congress to Pause Adjournment Plans
The 82nd Congress, stalled by disputes on two money bills, resumes today with adjournment delayed. Congress will likely idle until next week when members return to finish two remaining appropriations. The stalemate centers on a $10 billion supplemental bill adding an atomic weapons rider and a $584 million rivers and harbors and flood control financing measure.
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Washington
82Nd Congress
Senate
House
Chicago
Congress
Heavy Rains and Winds Hit Northwest Iowa
Heavy rains with thunderstorms and high winds drenched much of Iowa Sunday night causing property damage and flooding. Sanborn reported a 5.50 inch, 20 minute cloudburst tied to O'Brien county while Cherokee, Sioux City, Onawa and Danbury areas faced downed lines, damaged trees and railroad effects.
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Iowa
Floyd River
Sanborn
O’brien
Little Sioux
Sioux City
Morningside
Onawa
Chicago and North Western Railroad
Danbury
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