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...dinner party at Washington's elegant 1925 F Street Club one evening last week, Mrs. Karl Mundt was seated next to Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. He asked after Senator Mundt, who was attending a night session of the Senate. Mrs. Mundt said the Senator (up for election next year) was downcast because of the Oahe Dam. Summerfield politely asked about the dam, and Mrs. Mundt rattled off the facts & figures. A $14 million appropriation for the South Dakota dam had been dropped from the 1954 budget, she told Summerfield, and it was a pity. After all, $16 million...
This week Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, in his first major address, carried the definition over to the economic field, giving a fresh urgency (see below) to the ideal of economic freedom. Other Cabinet members, Vice President Nixon, Attorney General Brownell and Postmaster General Summerfield will extend the definition in subsequent speeches...
...Arthur Summerfield...
Asked how he nursed Fine and Summerfield along, Brownell says: "We built up their confidence that we knew what we were talking about. We had to convince people that we had as good a chance as Taft. That's where confidence in your word and your judgment comes...
When John Fine was finally convinced that Ike was going to win the nomination, he telephoned Brownell at his office in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel and said that he was almost ready to throw his votes to Ike. But he wanted assurance that Michigan's Summerfield would go along. Said Brownell: "The only way to do this is to get Summerfield on the phone." He picked up another phone called Summerfield off the convention floor. With a telephone in each hand Fine on one and Summerfield on the other, he held the phones so each could hear...