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Help from an Old Coat. While most of the top Democrats were out on the road, some organizational problems were still unsettled. Open in Washington were separate offices for Paul Butler's national committee, Jim Finnegan's campaign headquarters and Archibald Alexander's Volunteers for Stevenson-Kefauver. Jurisdictional boundaries among the three had not been decided, and Paul Butler did not help by claiming that his organization would handle "about nine-tenths of the campaign work." Finnegan's role, said Butler, would be simply that of "personal aide to Governor Stevenson in handling the traveling activities...
...called the opposition the "Democrat" Party. Last week the G.O.P. National Committee explained that the shortened adjective will be official Republican campaign usage because the "party of the Pender-gasts or Tammany Hall" cannot be considered a democratic party. After a brief flare-up by Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler ("They have no right to change our name"), Democrats cracked that they could not think of any name worse than Republican. At his news conference President Eisenhower treated the subject with all the gravity it deserved. Laughed Ike: "If they want to be known as the Democratic Party...
...Maryland's Democratic senatorial primary last May, former four-term U.S. Senator Millard Tydings, 66, beat Perennial Candidate George Mahoney by 6,000 votes and won the right to seek revenge on John Marshall Butler, who had toppled him from the Senate in 1950. But Tydings was laid low by a serious attack of shingles, and had to withdraw from the race (TIME, Aug. 27). Gathered last week to select a new candidate, the Democratic State Central Committee turned aside a bid by Tydings' wife Eleanor, 52, and chose the man her husband had defeated in the primary...
Although he has never won in two tries for the Senate and two for governor, the jubilant Mahoney figured that this is his year. Other Democrats were considerably less optimistic. Crumped National Committee Chairman Paul Butler, who had expected Millard Tydings to win in November: "With George Mahoney, there is a question...
Forbidden Planet. Some fascinating gadgets and a robot butler make life in outer space seem even better than in split-level suburbia (TIME, April...