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...this week Ike had rounded out his full Cabinet. The three final appointments: Michigan's Arthur Summerfield, chairman of the "Republican National Committee, to be Postmaster General; Boston's Sinclair Weeks, Republican finance chairman, to be Secretary of Commerce; President Martin Durkin of the A.F.L. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union to be Secretary of Labor (see THE NEW ADMINISTRATION...
...POSTMASTER GENERAL: 1) G.O.P. National Chairman Arthur Summerfield; 2) Senator Fred A. Seaton, Hastings (Neb.) newspaper publisher and one of Eisenhower's campaign advisers; 3) Herbert Brownell, New York lawyer who is Dewey's able political strategist...
...coming unexpectedly fast. The Hartford Courant declared at 7:40 p.m. that Ike had swept Connecticut. Eisenhower carried Bridgeport (pop. 159,000) by three votes-the first time since 1924 that a Republican candidate had carried this industrial city. At 8 o'clock. Republican National Chairman Arthur Summerfield looked at the results, said it might be a landslide for Ike. Less than 5% of the total vote was in by then, but almost every indicator was beginning to point...
...good and it looks pretty grim." But it was nearly 10:30 before Univac found the same kind of perspicacity, calculated that Ike would win by 314 electoral votes to Stevenson's 217 (or 27 million popular votes to Stevenson's 24 million).* G.O.P. Chairman Summerfield was far more positive. Said he, at 10:45: "Dwight Eisenhower has been elected President...
...Homestretch. As Ike's education progressed, he gradually became his own top adviser. At the beginning, Eisenhower's hastily assembled staff was disorganized. But the organization improved fast. Republican National Chairman Arthur Summerfield does not try to manage Ike's train; he concentrates chiefly on that large part of the campaign which does not revolve directly around the candidate...