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...hearing room of a House Post Office and Civil Service subcommittee last week, a reporter whispered a few words to Committeeman David Dennison, an Ohio Republican, who listened intently, broke into a grin and interrupted the testimony of Witness Arthur S. Flemming, president of Ohio Wesleyan University. "The White House." said Dennison, "has officially announced the appointment of Mr. Flemming as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare." Lean, painfully shy Arthur Flemming blinked in surprise, glanced hastily around the room as if in fear that there might be embarrassing applause. "Thank you, sir," he replied. "That's news...
During his long coverage of politics, Jackson has been a candidate for office in seven primary and four general elections (and lost only three primaries), served six years each as a state senator and a Democratic central committeeman. He has bagged appointive plums ranging from chairmanship of Ohio's Highway Construction Council (at $50 a day) to membership on the Strip Mine Commission. While drawing $8,000 a year from his Vindicator job, nimble Newsman Jackson since last May has helped make ends meet by working four days a week as an $8,400-a-year member of Ohio...
...letter came from Houston Oilman H. J. (Jack) Porter, 61, hard-riding Republican national committeeman, who wrote 25 influential Texas Republicans on official party stationery, asking them to support a $100-a-plate fund-raising speech from House Republican Leader Joe Martin in Houston. In the letter was a pointed paragraph that punctured the great gas balloon. Excerpts: "Joe Martin . . . has always been a friend of Texas, especially of the oil-and gas-producing industries. He mustered two-thirds of the Republican votes in the House each time the bill was passed ... It will be up to Joe Martin...
...private industry next January. Last week Joe Foss changed his mind, opened a campaign for the First District congressional seat held by George McGovern, South Dakota's first Democratic Congressman in 18 years. Reason: Foss was persuaded to run by 50 leading South Dakota Republicans headed by National Committeeman Axel Beck, who argued that Foss was the only Republican with a chance of beating Democrat McGovern and of staving off a statewide Democratic landslide in once religiously Republican South Dakota...
...dollars, anyone who already must eat and sleep there may also become a member of his House. He is free, however, not to pay, and the only privileges he forfeits are possession of the card and entrance to a few free functions sponsored by the Committee. The unfortunate House Committeeman is left with no apology for his presence except the exhortation that contributing is "a nice thing...