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...unselfish world outlook will prove to be winning politics this year. To me, one of the most promising features of Mr. Willkie's candidacy is that the Old Guard is opposed to him. In more "normal" political times the evasive, nonconstructive but "politically astute" maneuvers of Dewey, Bricker and the Old Guard might achieve success with voters, but this will not be a normal year...
...scramble for the gubernatorial chair of John Bricker, Ohio Republicans last week forgot to keep up appearances. The Alphonse-&-Gaston tradition of Party unity, which has won the Governorship for Republicans in the last three elections, had come apart at the seams...
Ohio's Republican unity has been the province of slick Boss Ed Schorr, 50, of Cincinnati. His 1944 Republican strategy had Governor Bricker stepping down to run for the Presidency, while genial, natty James Garfield Stewart, 63, of Cincinnati, would go in his place. If Bricker missed the Presidency, the next Ohioan in line, Senator Robert A. Taft, could try. It was all set-except that everybody had forgotten about the junior Senator, Harold H. Burton, who was elected in 1940 without Schorr's support...
...When Bricker stepped down. the fun began. Up marched Mayor Stewart, on schedule. But he was not alone. Into the race also went handsome, 6-ft. State Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert, 49. Herbert, who hails from Ohio's biggest city, Cleveland, is a World War I hero, an aviator who came home wounded with the D.S.C., Britain's Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Purple Heart. Senator Burton came out flatly for Tom Herbert, sent his own secretary to Ohio to help run Herbert's campaign for the May 9 primary. Then up popped a third Republican...
...Institute on Post-War Problems on March 11, 12, and 13. The list of speakers will include, among others, C. H. Mathewson of Yale; Dean George R. Harrison and M. Stanley Livingston of M. I. T.; Dean Howard M. Jones of Harvard; President Charles Seymour of Yale; Governor John Bricker of Ohio; President Daniel Marsh of Boston University; and Morris B. Lambie of Harvard...