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...appointment of Keen Johnson, ex-Governor of Kentucky, from a $35,000-a-year public relations job to a $10,000 post as Under Secretary of Labor (TIME, Aug. 12) set the stage for appeasing the A.F.L. The choice, made with Schwellenbach's approval, also appeared to choke off the longtime ambition of White House Adviser Steelman to succeed the hapless...
...there had been heavy pressure in Washington against him. The Democratic National Committee wanted the $10,000-a-year plum for its own choice, New Hampshire's ex-Governor Francis Murphy. From party politicos to the White House went protests about Luis Muñoz Marin's bossism. Harry Truman stood firm; he wanted a native, and Interior Secretary Julius Krug agreed that Sugar Farmer Piñero should be the man. So did most Puerto Ricans...
Last week, rural Georgia was comfortable again. After nearly four years of wearing the laundered government of chubby Governor Ellis Arnall (who cannot succeed himself under state law), she had gone back to his skinny, wild-eyed predecessor, 61-year-old ex-Governor Eugene Talmadge. Talmadge's once discarded political union suit still smelled of demagoguery, Klan support and white supremacy. But it felt easy in the seat...
Hierarchophobes. Newest trend in the Southern Baptist Conference: the rise of younger leaders. To replace 74-year-old Conference President Pat Morris Neff, ex-Governor of Texas, the Baptists chose Dr. Louie De Votie Newton, 54, since 1929 pastor of Atlanta's Druid Hills Church, biggest Baptist church in Georgia. Dr. Newton, a onetime reporter who never studied for the ministry, preaches in a journalistic style, with emphasis on current events. (Last fortnight he sailed into the resurgent Klan as it staged a tumultuous cross-burning near Atlanta...
...Florida, Spessard Lindsey Holland, ex-Governor (1941-45), friend of Senator Claude Pepper, had no trouble beating demagogue ex-Representative Robert Alexis Green for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Charles O. Andrews...