Word: kemper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican National Committee, representing the party of thrift, should practice what it preaches. So said G.O.P. Treasurer James Scott Kemper last week in a huffy letter of resignation to National Chairman Guy Gabrielson. Wrote Kemper: "We neither have collected the funds I thought we should collect nor have we reduced expenditures drastically." The party's reserves had dropped from $800,000 in July 1948 to $90,000-"for me," wrote Kemper, "a real tragedy...
...Republican finances had been in a lot worse shape before (notably in 1936, when the deficit after the Landon debacle was more than $1,000,000), and Kemper obviously had more on his mind than economy. It was the bipartisan foreign policy. Kemper had been much under attack as an isolationist (in 1941, as president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he opposed lend-lease). His Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. had sponsored Isolationist Upton Close's broadcasts during...
...Kemper's current position is that the bipartisan foreign policy is really only bipartisan in support, not "in genesis." Snapped Kemper: "As a result of our so-called bipartisan foreign policy, Republicans have been asked to shower gifts on British Socialism-younger sister of Communism." As G.O.P. Treasurer, Kemper had felt "handicapped" in saying so. He now planned to devote himself, he announced, to electing his kind of Republican Congress...
...Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do. Reginald Gardiner, one of the villains, suffers very well as a man who has fallen so low that the mere dodging of death is all that he lives for. Peaceful Jones (Charles Kemper) is a refreshing anomaly from the tired list of western old-timers and dry-tongued farmers. After each Saturday-night drunk, he is chained to a tremendous log (Furnace Creek has not yet got around to building a jail) which he cheerfully heaves up and carries along with him, back...
When war came, Kemper built the Historical Division from a paper directive to an organization of 300 historians working as teams in combat areas. Their findings will fill 99 volumes. On this job, Kemper met Historian James Phinney Baxter, president of Williams College and an Andover trustee. Baxter found Kemper refreshingly free of brass-hattitudes. He thought Kemper would be the man to succeed retiring Claude Moore Fuess (TIME, May 5). Says Kemper of his first civilian post: "Gosh...