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When the Truman Committeemen arrive on the West Coast late this month, they may hear the Liberty ship praised even more lyrically if Captain Walter A. Brunnick is in port. Brunnick, 62, has skippered the Liberty Henry Ward Beecher 63,000 miles, carried bombs and gasoline to India by the long cold route south of Australia, ridden out a hurricane off Madagascar, survived a collision during a submarine attack off Brazil. His verdict on attacks made by the Liberties' detractors: "Flapdoodle...
...sickly in youth, but he followed Teddy Roosevelt's example, fought his way to health on a ranch. He started his own political career only in 1940 when his old friend Senator Charles McNary persuaded him to become a candidate for national committeeman. Oregon elects its national party committeemen by popular vote. Cake stumped every county in the State, won by a vote almost as large as that of his three opponents combined. Father of two, he likes to read history and biography, hunt deer and bear in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. National Willkie headquarters will...
...meeting of Republican national and state committeemen in Chicago last fortnight, Earl Warren's was the name most mentioned for second place on the Presidential ticket. As leader of a 50-vote delegation, the governor of the great, growing and no longer so screwy State of California is sure to be a power at the G.O.P. convention. Warren is in the front rank of the group of up& -coming Republican governors who are, in considerable degree, the life of the Party. And he is also nationally significant as the most active political leader of a West which, enormously altered...
...solicited" Franklin Roosevelt to continue as "the great world leader." New national chairman named to succeed Postmaster General Frank C. Walker: Missouri's young, professional Robert E. Hannegan (TIME, Jan. 24). Convention city: Chicago. Campaign theme: twelve years of Roosevelt v. twelve years of oldtime G.O.P. "normalcy." Now, Committeemen muttered grimly, lukewarm Democratic Congressmen who have been sniping at the New Deal and then coasting into office on the Roosevelt coattails will have to come to the aid of the Party...
Pain and Passion. The Commissioner had understood: a veteran of France's underground, he knew that silence was the Assembly's rebuke to him, to General de Gaulle, to all administrative committeemen who for any reason had postponed the trials of such Vichymen as Pierre Etienne Flandin, Pierre Boisson. Fighting Frenchmen approached this question with the pain and passion of their long agony; they resented the patent fact that the U.S. and British Governments had interceded for some of the arrested men.* They reacted as Frenchmen have always reacted: the parliamentarians in the Consultative Assembly turned upon...