Word: michigan
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Collaborating with Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, long a power in the Michigan Republican hierarchy, Feikens has managed to repair most of the damage caused by the bitter Taft-Eisenhower fight in 1952, which alienated some of the G.O.P.'s best-heeled backers. Today Feikens is constantly prodding businessmen to get into the campaign more deeply. "Corporate lawyers won't let companies stick their necks out," he complains bitterly. "Most opinion leaders in Michigan communities are Republicans, and when they say that the C.I.O. still controls the state, somebody's falling down on the job pretty badly...
...lawyer, began dabbling in Detroit G.O.P. precinct work in 1947, frankly believing that "politics could do a lot for a young man." Soon he found out, "to my amazement," that although 60% of his district wanted Eisenhower for President, the Old Guard state G.O.P. was about to deliver up Michigan to Robert A. Taft. Thereafter Feikens helped spark the revolt that swung the Michigan delegation to Eisenhower. He won election to the $10,000-a-year job of state chairman after the Eisenhower landslide, was re-elected in February 1955 notwithstanding the Democratic clean sweep of 1954. He has since...
...John Feikens, though hard-pressed, has high hopes. The Republicans not only believe that Eisenhower can carry Michigan's 20 electoral votes again; they have a candidate for governor who already has "Soapy" Williams running scared. The candidate: Detroit's able Mayor Albert Cobo, 63, who, in his quiet, undramatic way, has beaten every effort of the U.A.W. to dislodge him from municipal office. He should be able to cut significantly into Williams' all-important Wayne County margin. But between the cup and the lip, only hard G.O.P. organization work, says Feikens, can prevent a slip like...
Every time Michigan's hard-pressed Republican State Chairman John Feikens hears the Republicans called the rich man's party, he wonders, forlornly, what country and what planet the Democrats are talking about. Feikens' job is to defeat a Democratic ticket next month that is: 1) headed by Michigan's popular four-term Governor G. Mennen Williams, millionaire heir to a soap fortune; 2) seconded by Lieut. Governor Phil Hart, who married an automobile fortune; and 3) backed to the hilt by Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers of America, whose 700,000 Michigan members...
...trip has been dogged by mishaps, bungles, delays and breakdowns, from the plane's mimeograph machine to the press bus, which left the newsmen on an Oregon roadside thumbing rides to the Portland airport. One unscheduled dash in Michigan sent the party on a breakneck 82-mile round-trip drive to the Mackinac Straits Bridge, which Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams insisted on showing to Kefauver for the benefit of photographers. A padlock had to be broken before the candidate could get on the structure after nightfall-to greet a crowd of five workmen and one woman...