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Kerry, who had been is the lead for most of the campaign but was hurt badly by the late withdrawal of Independent Roger Durkin, made a sour concession speech blaming "the politics of fear" for his defeat...
Kerry who had been picked as a solid favorite as recently as a week ago was substantially kindered by the with drawal from the race last Friday of Democrat turned independent Roger P. Durkin a conservative whose criticism of Kerry's radicalism had dominated the campaign Durkin threw his support to Cronin in an attempt to block Kerry's bid for Congress. Yesterday's returns medicated that Cronin had picked up most of the 20 per cent of popular support that Durkin had claimed...
...PRESIDENT is likely to have something political up his sleeve when he takes the rare step of picking a man from the other party for his Cabinet. Dwight Eisenhower installed Martin Durkin, head of the plumbers' union, as Secretary of Labor in 1953 partly as a gesture to his blue-collar backers. John Kennedy brought in Douglas Dillon for the Treasury because Dillon was a pillar of the New York financial community, which habitually mistrusts Democratic hands in the national till. Neither of those appointments, however, was quite the bombshell that Richard Nixon exploded last week when he strode...
...that he resigned as Secretary of State. While there have been a few low-level resignations on political principle from the Nixon Administration, no one at the Cabinet or subCabinet level has left. The last Cabinet official to leave in protest and say why was onetime Labor Secretary Martin Durkin; in 1953, after less than nine months in office, he resigned because President Eisenhower refused to support his proposed amendments to the Taft-Hartley...
...ministry. Bearings for Re-Establishment found that one priest-client was disgruntled principally because his bishop had refused his many requests for transfer from a lonely country parish; Bearings found him a new bishop and sent him happily back to work. Many more, however, would agree with Thomas J. Durkin, a former Philadelphia priest now directing Bianchi's group from San Francisco. Even if the celibacy rule is lifted, says Durkin, going back to parish life "would put me in a situation that a lot of Protestant ministers are leaving...