Word: chairman
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...Deputy Secretary of Defense, President Eisenhower last week named Navy Secretary Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, longtime Philadelphia investment banker (see box). In a rare (at least this year) burst of nonpartisan confidence, the Senate Armed Services Committee waived its usual lengthy questioning, unanimously approved him. Gates, said Democratic Chairman Richard Russell, was "admirably qualified." What made Russell's words even more meaningful was the fact that Tom Gates was clearly slated to succeed Defense Secretary Neil McElroy...
Arthur Radford, 63, four-star admiral (ret.), former chairman (1953-57) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and one of the finest U.S. military minds, was recalled temporarily as a special Pentagon consultant to help pinch-hit for J.C.S. Chairman Nate Twining, who will be out at least another five weeks while recovering from lung-cancer surgery...
William Birrell Franlce, 65, top-rung accountant and retired New York businessman (onetime chairman of General Shale Products Corp. and plumbing-making John Simmons Co.), moved up from Navy Under Secretary to Secretary...
...Stevenson bandwagon. For his part, Rayburn was prepared to work in the open long before convention time. But his critical role will come if, as expected, he mounts the podium at Los Angeles in July 1960 to become, for the fourth time running, permanent convention chairman. Master of floor strategy and impervious to shouts of delegates he does not care to recognize, Sam Rayburn will be in a position to gavel down surprise opposition moves, help steer the convention toward his candidate...
Reel Three: Coleman's political opponents were already making hay out of his FBI call, and the Wilkins statement was material for their hayrakes. "Wilkins gave Coleman a nice bouquet of roses wrapped in gold foil," cried State Democratic Chairman Bidwell Adam, charging that Coleman wanted "to sew up the 25,000 Negro votes." Barred by law from another term, Coleman is backing Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin. But in the aftermath of the Parker case, amid strong rumors that the FBI would have the killers this week, Coleman's support of Gartin was less than an asset. Said...