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...Stassen ran against Taft as a stand-in for Eisenhower, who could not return from Europe until late spring. Meanwhile, Stassen argued for a liberal foreign policy, and on the first ballot his votes gave Eiseinhower the nomination over Taft. In the new administration, Stassen served as director of Mutual Security and of Foreign Operations. He was a member of the National Security Council and participated regularly in Cabinet sessions. He was appointed Special Assistant for Arms Control, (or, as Eisenhower called him, "Secretary of Peace"). In this last capacity, he negotiated seriously with the Soviets in the summer...
...adopted state of Pennsylvania, but was put down by a hostile machine. In 1959 he ran for mayor of Philadelphia, and lost to Dilworth in a definitively Democratic city. If we judge Stassen by the men he has fought, his defeats appear in a different light. His opponents were Taft in '52, Nixon in '56, Dulles in '57. Moreover, he denounced McCarthy well before the Senate voted to censure their colleague...
Certainly Glenn will need strength. Young has served notice that he intends to fight. Whoever wins that encounter will probably face Robert Taft Jr. in the general election. And Taft, who possesses a politically potent name and who has served his political apprenticeship in both the Ohio legislature and the U.S. Congress, may be even tougher to beat than outer space...
...been sought after by both parties for months. Ohio G.O.P. State Chairman Ray Bliss courted him, offered him support for a House seat. But Glenn had his eye on the Senate, and for that job Ohio Republicans were already pretty well committed to the candidacy of Representative Robert Taft...
...unanimous 8-0 decision (former Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg did not take part), the Supreme Court last week held that jurisdiction over right-to-work issues lies with the state courts. "It would be odd," wrote Justice William O. Douglas, "to construe [the 1947 Taft-Hartley Law] as permitting a state to prohibit the agency clause but barring it from implementing...