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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief reason for the change: a quietly planned, intensive campaign by Eisenhower supporters to get rank & file voters to the caucuses to swamp the pro-Taft regular organization. The plan worked. Ike won a presidential preference vote (by a margin of five to three), and his supporters claimed two-thirds of the 2,588 delegates' seats in the King County convention. This would give Ike supporters almost a third of the delegates to the May 24 state convention. The managers, inspired by their Seattle victory, settled down this week for similar campaigns in other counties. They were confident that...
Early Career: during World War I, served at Army training posts, rising to lieut. colonel (temporary) in the tank corps; during the 19203, after reverting to his permanent rank of captain, he gradually rose to major; was No. i man in his class (1926) at the Fort Leavenworth Command & General Staff School; in 1932 stood by Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur during Washington's famed bonus march; in 1933 became MacArthur's aide; from 1935 to late 1939 served as MacArthur's right hand in the Philippines; learned also to fly a plane (300 air hours); distinguished...
...architect who is Cox's great-grandson, appealed to President Franklin Roosevelt, who proved sympathetic but without any legal power to reverse the 1814 court-martial. Two years ago Litchfield persuaded Georgia's Representative Eugene Cox (no kin) to introduce a resolution restoring William Cox to the rank of third lieutenant as of his death in 1874. This was the resolution before the House Armed Services Committee last week. The outlook is that Litchfield, now 80, and 30-odd other descendants may see the family name cleared by this session of Congress...
...clergyman (/5%), or artist (1%). Even if a humanities man goes into business, the chances are about one to four he will end up just eking out his living (only 6% of the specialists find themselves in that position). The social scientists do even worse in business: 31% hold "rank-and-file" jobs...
Ayers Brinser '31, Director of Agricultural and Marketing Research, is in charge of the project. He hopes to identify and rank the factors other than price and income, which influence family meat buying...