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Convention Scene Shapes Up for GOP Nomination Fight
The Chicago convention layer shows Dewey backers pressing for quick nomination while Stassen and Taft camps weigh delaying tactics. Halleck shifts Indiana to Dewey, Vandenberg looms as a potential compromise, and Duff of Pennsylvania stirs hopes for crossflow as delegates assess second and third ballot strategies.
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Hallanan
Dewey
Saloustall
Robert R. McCormick
The
Chicago Tribune
Charles Halleck
Indiana
Halleck
McCormick
Tnediana
Green
Illinois
Kim Sigler
Michigan
Vandenberg
Stassen
Minnesota
Lodge
Taft
Saltonstall
James Duff
Pennsylvania
Convention Coud
G.O.P
Warren
California
Harold Mitchell
Connecticut
Dull
Sigler
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Tafti
New York
Duff
New Yorker
John W. Bricker
United States
Patt
Robert Gordon Sproul
University of California