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...December. The problem: How could a Republican President-elect and his key men, in the few weeks between election and inauguration, get a clear view of the vast, federal, bureaucratic jungle inhabited by 2,600,000 employees? One foresighted Ikeman, New York Financier Harold Talbott, a big G.O.P. fund raiser who will be Secretary of the Air Force in the new Administration, had an answer...
...million corporation, the president of Harvard cannot often concern himself no directly with faculty affairs. The University's problems often resolve into financial once, and over the years Conant has become a wise and even a bit cynical about the whole problem. No hand shaking fund-raiser himself, he greatly appreciated the need for such...
...Senator by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. in 1936, he was appointed by old friend Leverett Saltonstall, then governor, to fill out Lodge's unexpired second term when Lodge went off to World War II in 1944. Meanwhile, he had developed a name as Massachusetts' top Republican money raiser, and in 1941 was named treasurer of the G.O.P. National Committee. In June 1952, he called upon Robert Taft to "perform a supreme act of self-denial which will electrify the nation," i.e., concede the Republican nomination to Ike. (Taft called the suggestion "ridiculous...
Politics: Says Humphrey: "I have been a supporter of Taft from the first time he ever ran for office." A lifelong Republican and a good friend of Ohio's bell-ringing G.O.P. Representative George Bender, Humphrey has been a quiet big-money-raiser for Bender's Ohio Republican organization, but only the leaders knew him. It was no politician who proposed him to Ike as Secretary of the Treasury. The man who did: General Lucius D. Clay (ret.), onetime commander of U.S. occupation forces in Europe, now board chairman of Continental Can Co. Clay met and admired Humphrey...
Although a long haired designer would probably make a poor dean, he might fit in well as a departmental head. The dean needed for the organization program, however, should be primarily an administrator and a fund raiser, a man with a conservative reputation who has earned the respect of both architects and industrialists. Once he takes over, he must first face the immediate problem of a deficit. There are a number of ways he can go about easing Design's expenses...