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...shifting, running, behind-the-scenes fight for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, three new "compromise" candidates emerged last week: Iowa's middle-of-the-road National Committeeman Harrison Earl Spangler, a party wheel horse for two decades; Delaware's strawberry-growing ex-Senator John G. Townsend, close friend of Senate G.O.P. Leader Charles McNary; and Missouri's middle-of-the-road National Committeeman Barak Thomas Mattingly, host to the meeting in St. Louis on Dec. 7 at which the chairman will be picked...
Telephones jangled in the homes of many a Republican National Committeeman and Committeewoman last week. Over the long-distance wires explanations were made and promises asked. For the battle to shape the future of the Republican Party-a future that looked exceedingly bright after last fortnight's elections-had been joined...
Although the battle was still largely behind the scenes, it boiled over in the Republican press when a sizable boom developed for bespectacled, colorless Werner W. Schroeder, National Committeeman for Illinois, a good friend of Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick...
Given enough public support, there is still hope that, before next March, some modification of the Ruml Plan will finally become law. One pay-as-you-go bill has already been introduced in the House by Ways & Means Committeeman Donald H. McLean (Rep., N.J.). In the Senate Finance Committee, Republican members Vandenberg and Taft and Democrats Byrd and Chairman George all favor some form of pay-as-you-go. Last week never-say-die Beardsley Ruml was once again campaigning: "Nothing can be gained," cried portly, ebullient Mr. Ruml, "by arguing that people ought to have saved...
...effort," would require from 25 to 100 years to accomplish. Optimistic cockneys say it would be feasible "if Hitler had done a bit more damage." Asked the cost, Architect Lutyens replied airily: "Oh, just about what two days of war cost!" (approx. $100,000,000). Said a Royal Academy committeeman: "If you add another nought, it would be about right...