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...Turk who enlivened one party convention by parading through a hotel overturning beds and occupants (in 1936 he swore off drinking). After 16 conscientious years in Albany (including terms as majority leader and Speaker of the Assembly), Ives decided to try national politics. In 1946, he ran against formidable ex-Governor Herbert Lehman for a seat in the U.S. Senate. The voters gave Lehman the licking of his life, and sent Ives off to Washington with an astonishing plurality (251,000 votes), the first New Yorker to sit on the Republican side of the Senate in 20 years...
Sobbed Verdict. One morning last week, in the social hall of ex-Governor Lacson's own office building in Bacolod, the longest trial in the history of the province came to an end. As 2,000 Negrenses jammed the corridors, Judge Eduardo Enriquez rendered his verdict (there is no jury system in the Philippines). He traced Lacson's rise to power, his private army, his "perfect and coordinated" system of political murder. Then the judge faltered. He recalled that he himself and Lacson had been college classmates: they had been "more than friends-like brothers." The judge began...
Faubus, onetime highway director for ex-Governor Sid McMath, was accused of attending Commonwealth College in the Ouachita Mountains. Commonwealth, which folded in 1940, was later branded a Communist-line school by the U.S. Department of Justice. Faubus admitted he had hitchhiked to the school from his Ozark home in 1935 to accept a proffered scholarship, spotted the Red danger signals after a few weeks, and hiked right back home. Cherry refused to let the matter drop, suggested Faubus was lying. Faubus fought back with a charge that Cherry was the tool of special business interests; he chortled happily when...
Chester Bowles, ex-adman, ex-governor, ex-ambassador to India, is now an ex-aspirant for re-election as governor of Connecticut. And he is somewhat surprised; a year ago, the Democratic nomination seemed to lie in the palm of Bowles's big, friendly hand...
...country too much, and should not have gone into consumer goods in the first place. Chief power-nibblers among the old Ryan groups: Alleghany Corp. President Allan Kirby, financial partner of Robert R. Young (see above); New Mexico Publisher Robert McKinney, a cousin of Bob Young; ex-Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey; Chairman Arthur M. Hill of Greyhound Corp.'s executive committee; and Houston Oilman George Brown...