Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rear Admiral John Hayward, 50, assistant chief of Naval Operations for Research and Development, will be promoted to vice admiral and put in the newly created post of Deputy C.N.O. for Development. "Chick" Hayward ran away from home (Great Neck, L.I.) at 15 to join the Navy, got an Annapolis...
Ranged around their long, six-sided White House table, the President of the U.S. and his Cabinet listened attentively as the slender, curly-haired visitor got up to speak. The time: midsummer 1958. The man: Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn. Gist of his remarks: a pessimistic forecast of November'...
Eventually Ike left final judgment up to Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell; Mitchell sharply dissented, and Alcorn's proposal died (and in the November Democratic landslide many a Republican chance died because voters could not figure out where the national G.O.P. stood on labor reform).
Before he agreed to try for the chairmanship at this week's national committee meeting, Morton sounded out Rockefeller and Nixon. Nixon was enthusiastic. Rockefeller also approved, although Morton, who could swing considerable influence one way or the other in the 1960 convention, stated publicly last January: "Some people...
The only opposition to Morton's nomination came from the Republican Old Guard. Pennsylvania Congressman Richard Simpson, who blasted Alcorn, Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism at a national committee meeting last January in Des Moines (TIME, Feb. 2), implied that Morton was too modern and the Old Guard did not...