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...lead the California delegation to the Republican National Convention, Knowland was avidly wooed by presidential hopefuls. From the Eisenhower camp came strong hints that the vice-presidential nomination could be his. From the Taft forces (but not from Taft himself) came a direct promise that support for the Ohioan would give Knowland second place on the national ticket. But Knowland and his delegation were pledged to back Earl Warren for President-and Bill Knowland has never broken his word. At Chicago, disturbed by reports that his Senate Colleague Richard Nixon was trying to get the California delegation to defect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Dynasty & Destiny | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...native Ohioan and Big Man on Campus (Ohio State), Minor came to ICC by a remarkably circuitous route. He worked summer vacations as an entertainer in New York's borscht circuit, later spent a year touring 40 states with a Major Bowes unit as part of a three-man comedy act called The Micro Maniacs. Drafted into the Army in 1942, Minor rose to command a machine-gun company in the Normandy invasion (where he received the Purple Heart), went back to civilian life in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and returned to Ohio State, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Voted to give authority to the Robert A. Taft Memorial Foundation to build a monument on the Capitol grounds to the late Ohioan, and set up a commission to make plans for a Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial. New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges slyly asked that the Roosevelt commission also consider a memorial to Massachusetts' Republican Calvin Coolidge, but later withdrew the motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Symptom on the Cheek | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

Change of Venue. In Raleigh, N.C., arrested for vagrancy, Ohioan John Pa-lenkas explained why he was in town: "All the Southern bums are in Ohio taking the bread out of my mouth, so I [decided to] go on the bum down South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...Cave." Bluff Ohioan Bab bitt seemed a mart out of his time. Causes were bursting all about him, and the only kind of conscience that seemed fashion able was the social kind. Rolling a pencil between his hands, Babbitt spoke of the "inner obeisance" that man must have "to something higher than his ordinary self." He despised the new ethics that was based entirely on the assumption that the only "significant struggle between good and evil is not in the individual but in society." In one sense, Irving Babbitt almost blasted Nathan Pusey's academic career. His broad humanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unconquered Frontier | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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