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This serene state of mind has been reflected in another policy decision-the physical schedule of his campaign. He agreed last week to extend his personal barnstorming to Pittsburgh-because pockets of unemployment in Western Pennsylvania represent a danger to Republican candidates, particularly Senator James H. Duff. His newly announced campaign trip to the Midwest and Northwest in mid-October-with speeches planned in Minneapolis, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland-has a similar purpose. In Minnesota the Republican ticket is endangered by farm unrest; in Washington and Oregon he has given Arthur Langlie and Douglas McKay his backing for the Senate...
...dangerous in New York City and in other areas where the Jewish vote is substantial. Some Republican leaders worried about the long-distance effect in Philadelphia, where a shift of the Jewish vote against the Republicans might hurt the hair-close re-election chances of U.S. Senator James Duff...
Pennsylvania. G.O.P. Senator Jim Duff's stiff opposition is Philadelphia's able ex-Mayor Joe Clark. The frangible Pennsylvania Republican Party will have to give Duff solid support to put him across...
...political role is a group of top-drawer Republicans who meet informally and are known in party circles as "the Committee." More or less regular members are White House Chief Sherman Adams, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Press Secretary James Hagerty, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff and New York Lawyer Tom Stephens, who has been roaming the country for months as a G.O.P. organizer, trouble-shooter and factfinder. All of them have been planning with the President's health in mind, but they have been happy to encounter a real impetus for an active presidential...
...Assistant State Secretary Thruston Morton into trying for the Senate seat now held by Kentucky's Earle Clements, in arranging for Interior Secretary McKay to hit the Oregon trail against Wayne Morse. Among incumbent Republican Senators who can expect Ike's direct aid are Pennsylvania's Duff, Connecticut's Prescott Bush and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...