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With National Chairman Paul Butler crisply presiding, the Democratic Convention Arrangements Committee gathered in a room in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel one day last week to choose the convention keynoter. To begin with, there were polite mentions of 17 possible candidates for the job. but soon the selection...
At first the signs were strong for Oilman Kerr, but because he had fought too hard for the natural-gas bill, roundly vetoed by the President (TIME, Jan. 30. et seq.), it was decided that Kerr was not the man for this year. Nor could the committee quite agree that...
Named this week to the critical job of chairman of the Democratic convention platform committee: Massachusetts' John W. McCormack, 64. House Majority Leader McCormack, who is, as National Chairman Butler put it, "widely respected both on Capitol Hill and throughout the country for his fairness and understanding," tackled the...
Washington's Statler Hotel fairly rocked with positive thinking last Week as the International New Thought Alliance, percussively dedicated to "Peace, Poise, Power and Plenty," rejoiced in annual convention. From all over the U.S., plus England and Canada, 1,814 enthusiasts of such movements as "Religious Science," "Divine Science...
Died. Francis John Myers, 54, plodding, Fair-Dealing onetime (1945-51) Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, three-time (1939-45) Congressman (West Philadelphia), Senate whip in the 81st Congress and floor leader for Adlai Stevenson at the 1952 Democratic National Convention; of leukemia; in Philadelphia.