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...dollars a year ... is not going to be a tough enforcer of the law . . ." As a result of Brennan's story, Tubbo Gilbert, reckoned an easy winner, was snowed under. The Cook County Democratic crash also defeated Senator Scott Lucas, the Democratic floor leader, and elected Republican Everett Dirksen (TIME...
Harriman: You showed some people that weren't a very great credit to the Republican Party, and I think your array, beginning with MacArthur and Hoover and Dirksen...
Democratic Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson sat and listened to a stout defense of himself from the pulpit of the Springfield, Ill. Presbyterian Church. Departing from the Scripture to comment on current events, the Rev. Richard Graebel thundered that Republican Senator Everett Dirksen's statement that Stevenson was the worst Illinois governor of the 20th century was "a blatant lie." Said Pastor Graebel later: he was not aware that the governor was in his church...
Taft-lke Unity. Eisenhower made serious efforts to bring the Taftmen firmly into the campaign. To Denver came Senators Hugh Butler of Nebraska and Everett Dirksen of Illinois, both strong Taft backers. Both left announcing complete unity. At Columbus, Vice Presidential Nominee Dick Nixon spoke to the Ohio State Republican convention, composed mostly of Taftmen, who cheered him when he denounced Stevenson as "a captive candidate . . . Harry Truman's candidate...
Republican Strategy Boafd, headed by Summerfield: Senator Dirksen; Representative Leonard Hall of New York, a Deweyman and chairman of the House Campaign Committee; Wayne Hood, Republican state chairman in Wisconsin; Robert Humphreys, former I.N.S. writer and Newsweek editor, in charge of publicity; Wesley Roberts, Kansas public-relations man who did brilliant work for Ike at Chicago, in charge of organization...