Word: chairmens
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Political Debate (Sun. 2 p.m., CBS) Leonard Hall v. Paul Butler, chairmen of the Republican and Democratic National Committees...
...second break with precedent came in the politically turgid days of December, 1923. Senator Albert B. Cummins had been the chairman of the Committee on Interstate Commerce since 1919. When, in 1923, his name again appeared on the list of proposed chairmen, Democrats and Progressives in the Senate roared that Cummins was the enemy of the farmer and the worker. He had sponsored the controversial Esch-Cummins law which provided for high railroad freight rates, a law that was oppressive to the small shipper. His opponents charged that Cummins was the ally of the gilded railroaders, and the farmer...
Although seniority is an established and expedient way of appointing chairmen to Congressional committees, and while it works well in the majority of cases, the method is far from perfect. To preserve the custom as the best of feasible methods, Congress has shown in the past that it will, in unusual circumstances, make exceptions. When to make these exceptions, and how general they should be, then becomes a problem for which it is almost impossible to set criteria. But three exceptions, among the thousands of appointments, indicate that the Senate puts a higher premium on tradition than on criteria...
...Harvard-Delhi Student Project last night named its officers for the coming year. William D. Faust '57 and John Mendelsohn '58 were elected co-chairmen, with Peter N. Stearns '57 and David G. Taylor '57 as secretaries, and Richard Rohrberg '58 as treasurer...
Moving down one notch from the big question, the United Press last week polled Republican state chairmen on point No. 2: "On the assumption that President Eisenhower will run, who is your choice for Vice President? Please indicate whether you feel strongly for or against Vice President Nixon." Results: for Nixon without qualification, 25; for Nixon but "it's up to Ike," 11; for whomever the President wants, 4; for others, 2; no comment, 6. That gave Dick Nixon the support of chairmen in 36 states with 1,019 convention votes-357 more than the number needed for nomination...