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...Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed Dulles to a U.S. Senate vacancy, and four months later, after a crossroads campaign to win and hold the seat, the Wall Street lawyer was roundly defeated by Democratic ex-Governor Herbert Lehman. An early supporter of Eisenhower over conservative Republican Robert Taft, he helped write the foreign-policy plank for the 1952 G.O.P. platform. President-elect Eisenhower put him at the top of the list of choices for Secretary of State, a position he would also have achieved if either Republican candidate, Dewey or Taft, had become President...
...William Howard Toft. Daughter Helen Taft Manning, 67, told her favorite yarn about her portly (300 Ibs.) father and his much-lampooned girth. When Taft was Civil Governor of the Philippines and recuperating from an illness, he reassured Secretary of War Elihu Root of his recovery by cabling Root that he had just ridden 50 miles on horseback. Crackled back Root: "How is the horse...
Eisenhower voiced gratification for the vote by which the House sustained his veto of a bill that would have taken from Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson the power to pass on rural electrification and telephone loans...
WASHINGTON, April 21--The Senate rejected efforts to strip proposed Taft-Hartley Act changes from the Kennedy labor bill today. It also voted down an effort to write in Taft-Hartley changes sought by the Eisenhower administration...
...result of the first day of voting on the bill was a considerable victory for Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass), chief sponsor of the legislation. He led the defense against attacks from both those who wanted all of the Taft-Hartley provisions knocked out and those who wanted to go further than his measure...