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...from the Keys of Florida to the mountains of Virginia. In Florida, Republican registration has increased more than 40% since November. In Louisiana, New Orleans Lawyer John Minor Wisdom's workers are getting Democrats' signatures on petitions to change Democratic registrations to Republican. In Georgia, State Chairman Elbert Tuttle has established the state's first full-time G.O.P. headquarters, and new party units are springing up all over the state. In Virginia, the G.O.P. thinks it has the chance of the century to elect a governor. "For the first time since the Civil War," wired a TIME...
...High Commissioner of the Pacific Trust Territory (southwest Pacific islands administered by the U.S. as trustee for the United Nations): Frank Elbert Midkiff, 65. Born in Anna, Ill. Midkiff went to Hawaii at 25 to take a job as an English teacher and athletic coach at an insular college, stayed on to become a businessman, school principal. His new bailiwick, scattered over an expanse of ocean wider than the U.S., consists of 2,130 small, rainy, tropical islands with a total area of 687 sq. mi. and a total native population of 58,000. The territory's value...
...Adopted a resolution of sorrow at the death of Utah's ex-Senator Elbert Thomas, 69, high commissioner of U.S. Trust territory in the Pacific (see MILESTONES...
...Died. Elbert Duncan Thomas, 69, scholarly New Deal Senator from Utah (1932-50) a sponsor of the G.I. Bill of Rights, and Truman-appointed High Commissioner of the U.S. trust territories in the Pacific; of pulmonary infarction; in Honolulu. A benign Ph. D., Thomas served five years as a Mormon missionary in Japan, taught Latin, Greek, political science and Oriental history at the University of Utah, wrote six books (Sukui No Michi. Chinese Political Thought, The Four Fears, etc.), doodled in Japanese...
...ELBERT PARR TUTTLE, 55, Atlanta tax lawyer and post-convention Republican state chairman, to be general counsel (head of the Legal Division) of the Treasury Department. Tuttle's high-domed head and earnest oratory came to the attention of several million U.S. televiewers during last summer's Republican National Convention, when he sparked the Georgia pro-Eisenhower delegation's dramatic and successful fight against the claims of the rival pro-Taft delegation. Tuttle had been in battle before: in World War II, he was an artillery battalion commander in the Pacific. An ex-officer who served under...