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...proposal, Mitchell pointed out, left plenty of muscle to throw out of the 1956 national convention any Democrat who bolted and supported Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. If former Governor James F. Byrnes of South Carolina. Governor Robert F. Kennon of Louisiana, Governor Allan Shivers and former National Committeeman Wright Morrow of Texas seek seats as delegates, warned Mitchell, "they will be rejected...
Opposition flared forthwith. Mississippi's Democratic Representative William Colmer, a Rules committeeman from Pascagoula (fisheries, textiles), leaned far back in his chair and drawled: "Isn't it true that a closed rule is really a gag?" Jere Cooper looked hurt, answered the attack with a defense of the trade bill itself. Said he: "The studies show that where a product is in bad shape, it is not so much the tariff rate that is causing it, but normal changes in tastes and customs. The felt-hat industry has complained. Well, it's not the tariff that...
...idea of calling his kind of Republicanism "progressive moderate." But now he thought that "dynamic conservatism" was the best term: "We are not antediluvian, nor are we trying to be men from Mars." Bedrock Conclusions. When he had finished, the national committeemen pounded the tables in delight. Whispered one committeeman to his neighbor: "Why. that's the first real honest-to-goodness Republican political speech I've heard him make." But the committeemen hadn't heard anything yet: Ike's speech was merely the first public outcropping of some bedrock conclusions that he has reached about...
...administrative assistant in charge of patronage on federal-state projects. A few days later, he called in Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie to urge him to run against Democrat Warren Magnuson for the Senate in 1956. Last week Ike approved plans to talk personally to every Republican national committeeman, every member of the financial committee, every state chairman, and delegates from every major Republican women's group...
...Richard L. Neuberger went off to Washington last week with a brand-new tuxedo and Muffet (to keep him company until Maurine resigns from the legislature in May), he had the grudging admiration and good wishes of Oregon's Republicans. Said former National Committeeman Ralph Cake: "While I believe he's a fellow who doesn't want to go too deeply into things at times, I think it's a certainty he will try to do everything he can for the state and the region...