Word: kirwan
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Help for a Turncoat. Finnegan therefore insisted that Stevenson invite Florida's smooth George Smathers, chairman of the Senate Democratic* Campaign Committee, and Ohio's rough ex-Coal Miner Mike Kirwan, chairman of the House Campaign Committee, along on last week's conference tour (see below), which was the opening phase of Operation Reverse Coattails. In that operation, Smathers and Kirwan figure to play a key role...
...into action by Smathers and Kirwan, the operation is by no means one-sided. They think that Stevenson can give help to the state candidates as well as receive it from them. In Oregon, ex-Republican Senator Wayne Morse is in trouble against former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay. Said Smathers: "Six years ago the Democrats were fighting Morse in Oregon. Now he's trying to get their vote, and some think he's just a turncoat. What better way to get them with him than to identify himself with the national ticket...
...House Appropriations Committee rejected a proposal for federal aid in building an auditorium-civic center in Washington after Ohio's Democratic Representative Mike Kirwan, a former coal miner and railroader, objected to the proponents' argument that Washington needs a stage that can accommodate ballet. Said Kirwan: "You have to chloroform the people to get 500 to look at a ballet. Don't let anybody kid you on that score. It takes a lot of good courage to sit and watch somebody go into a toe dance. I am like Oliver Wendell Holmes. He said, 'Give...