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...efficient hierarchy of command, reaching down to the counties, along which could flow all applications for jobs. But in most states the G.O.P. operates cumbersomely. New York is a model of political precision: Governor Tom Dewey makes the decisions and keeps a man in Washington to speak for him (ex-Congressman Robert T. Ross). But few states are so well disciplined. In Pennsylvania, appointments need the approval of such feuding bosses as Senator Jim Duff, Governor John Fine, Mason Owlett and Senator Ed Martin...
...Nominated as new boss for the Housing and Home Finance Agency Albert M. Cole, 51, Kansas lawyer and ex-Congressman...
...Fred George Aandahl, 55, North Dakota farmer and politician (ex-Congressman, ex-governor), to be Assistant Secretary in charge of the Division of Water and Power. As a candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination last summer. Aandahl made an enemy of Senator William Langer, also a candidate. Langer won both the primary and the November election, and last week he faced Aandahl at a hearing of the Senate Interior Committee, which passed on the four Interior Department appointees. Happy after all to see a fellow North Dakotan in a high-Government post and a rival North Dakotan out of state...
...another act of Christmas charity, the President granted pardons to former Democratic Congressman Andrew May of Kentucky and New Jersey's Republican ex-Congressman J. Parnell Thomas. May served nine months in prison for accepting bribes during his World War II stint as chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Thomas, onetime chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, served nine months for taking salary kickbacks from his congressional office staff. Both men have been free since September 1950, but the presidential pardon restores their citizenship rights...
...around, but I wasn't one of the fellows." Burrows had been "pretty naive," commented Committeeman Harold H. Velde. Said Burrows: "I'll go further than that. I'll say I was stupid." Onetime Cinemactress Karen (Scarface) Morley, with Manhattan's party-lining ex-Congressman Vito Marcantonio along for legal aid, was less naive. She admitted that she was 42 and that her real name was Mildred Linton Vider. But, 33 times when asked questions chiefly about Communist affiliation, she called on the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer...