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...mind in the conservative ranks," he knew the facts of the internationalist position. But he could never rise above the short-run interests of his own section. Never, that is, until the first months of the Eisenhower Administration when, acting as Eisenhower's "Prime Minster," he whipped Eastern and Midwestern Republicans into the same line. But death cut short Taft's brief experience with truly national leadership. For most of his public life, he was too much a representative to be a statesman...
Though at 63 Joe Welch has the manner of a Louisburg Square patrician, he comes from the plainest Midwestern pioneer stock. Both his parents were English-born. Father William Welch ran away to sea at 14, wandered the world for 15 years (including a three-month hitch with the British army during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857), finally immigrated to his brother's' farm in Illinois and married the hired girl. William Welch was a simple man and good, but in his years at sea, he developed an abiding affection for the bottle. Martha Welch decided to remove...
...Meek, formerly a small-town merchant, is a well-combed, practical Midwestern businessman. He organized the Illinois Federation of Retail Associations in 1935, has been its president ever since. As such, he lobbies for his association's 60,000 retailer members, and is proud of it. Helping the cause of the small businessman, he believes, is the best way to promote long-term prosperity in the U.S. His favorite label for himself: "Mr. Retail...
...with the Eisenhower Administration, Joseph Raymond McCarthy, the onetime Marquette University light-heavyweight boxer, had taken a solid punch on the jaw. Last week Senator McCarthy's committee colleagues moved in to separate the assailants. Taking advantage of the bell, Slugger McCarthy took off as scheduled on a Midwestern speaking tour, hoping that a change of pace and of subject would help him recover from damage done by the Army's chronicle of the case of Private David Schine. But the bell came too late to avert physical exhaustion: two days later Joe McCarthy was stricken with...
...week's end McCarthy was still firing countercharges from the hip. From Midwestern platforms he repeatedly blasted Murrow for being an "extreme left-wing bleeding heart," and reported in shocked tones that in 1935 Murrow had been on the advisory council for a summer school at Moscow University. Murrow professed an inability to define "bleeding heart" but freely conceded that his position was "to the left of both McCarthy and Louis XIV." The advisory council, he pointed out, had consisted of 25 U.S. educators, ranging from the University of Chicago's Robert Hutchins to Smith College...