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Only a short time before, Eisenhower had given his blessing to the selection of Sen. Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky to succeed Meade Alcorn as Republican National Committee Chairman. Tradition assures Morton of the job. He is regarded as a supporter of vice-President Nixon...
...Clubs decided to make the study because of a speech last January by Meade Alcorn, Republican National Committee Chairman. "Alcorn told Republicans to get closer to the people, and we're trying to find out how to do this," Richard A. Derham '62, chairman of the "Ward 4 Project," said yesterday...
...quotations, Republican Cabinet members, Congressmen and lesser lights boarded planes out of Washington last week for a traditional political rite: the delivery across the land of some 5,000 speeches honoring the birthday (150th) of their party's father. But, to the outrage of Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, the Democrats stole the Lincoln Day show by laying on the biggest celebration of them all, right there in Washington. Democratic leaders in both houses set up a solemn joint session to hear the U.S. Army band play patriotic tunes, the U.S. Coast Guard cadet chorus sing Civil War songs...
While the President repeatedly denies, moreover, that political affiliation is a factor in determining his Administration's appointments, he does little in practice to confirm this position. Last year, he allowed Meade Alcorn to blackball Henry Labouisse--the State Department's choice for deputy director of the International Cooperation Agency--on the ground that Labouisse registered as a Democrat in 1940. Again this month, when the Department recommended Labouisse for the directorship he was passed over in favor of James Riddleberger, happily a qualified diplomat but in addition apparently politically sound...
Last week, with Franke's promotion official, disappointed Jim Smith went home to Aspen, Colo. Gates prepared to leave June 1, after the Navy's 1960 budget passes. Last week also a third disappointed man popped up. Grieved was G.O.P. Chairman Alcorn. who had done no more than listen to congressional advice, had been clobbered in print as the man who put the finger on Independent Republican Smith...