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...impressions form an important part of the political picture. This is particularly true when an incumbent governor such as Leo Hoegh is seeking reelection. National, state and local issues intertwine and conflict and complicate one another (last week staunch Eisenhower Republican Hoegh. convinced that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is a local political liability, kept far away when Benson visited Iowa). At times, issues that logically should help the candidate are fatal. In some cases a whole collection of political anthills pile together to form a mountain of opposition...
...didn't call any plays of his own. He endorsed all Republicans, including Senator McCarthy; he decided it was wise not to speak up in General Marshall's defense; he called TVA a form of "Creeping socialism;" he came to an entente cordiale with Senator Taft; he accused the Truman Administration of harboring those three villains, Corruption, Communism, and Controls; and he promised, dramatically, to "go to Korea" and get this country out of its mess...
Collaborating with Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, long a power in the Michigan Republican hierarchy, Feikens has managed to repair most of the damage caused by the bitter Taft-Eisenhower fight in 1952, which alienated some of the G.O.P.'s best-heeled backers. Today Feikens is constantly prodding businessmen to get into the campaign more deeply. "Corporate lawyers won't let companies stick their necks out," he complains bitterly. "Most opinion leaders in Michigan communities are Republicans, and when they say that the C.I.O. still controls the state, somebody's falling down on the job pretty badly...
...Detroit G.O.P. precinct work in 1947, frankly believing that "politics could do a lot for a young man." Soon he found out, "to my amazement," that although 60% of his district wanted Eisenhower for President, the Old Guard state G.O.P. was about to deliver up Michigan to Robert A. Taft. Thereafter Feikens helped spark the revolt that swung the Michigan delegation to Eisenhower. He won election to the $10,000-a-year job of state chairman after the Eisenhower landslide, was re-elected in February 1955 notwithstanding the Democratic clean sweep of 1954. He has since worked himself ragged trying...
Banks, Barbershops, Etc. Burly, thunder-voiced George Bender, 60, is perfectly frank about the length and breadth of his campaign. "I never started," he says, "and I never stop. Since his 1954 election to complete the unexpired term of his idol, Robert A. Taft, Bender has worked hard to live down his reputation as the bell ringing buffoon at the 1952 Republican National Convention. He has built up a record as a solid pro-Eisenhower Senator, and few Republicans have a better right to call upon Ike for help. Most observers agree that although he has cut deeply into...