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...means is that Humphrey, at 43, has mellowed considerably, is willing to live and let live in order to keep Democrats working together. He has toned down his civil-rights talk. The Humphrey-type liberals have given up-at least temporarily-their all-out drive for complete repeal of Taft-Hartley...
Harvard has also contributed men to present-day public-life--men like David Lilienthal, Dean Acheson, and the late Robert T. Taft...
Ohio: Republican George Harrison Bender, 58, was elected for the unexpired term of the late great Robert A. Taft by unseating Senator Tom Burke. Burke, a habitually effortless winner of Cleveland's mayoralty, found bushbeating all over Ohio a chore, while Bender sang and shouted his way through all 88 counties. Burke lost by 9,355 votes. Remembered as cheer leader in the 1948 and 1952 Taft-for-President campaigns, George Bender is boss of the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Republican machine and a veteran of 14 years in the House. Long an isolationist, he has hungrily swallowed President Eisenhower...
ROSCOE DRUMMOND, the Republican New York Herald Tribune's chief Washington correspondent: The real "secret weapon" of the Republican campaign and the Republican winner of 1954 is Ezra Taft Benson, the flexible-price-support Secretary of Agriculture. The "farm revolt" just didn't develop. And Secretary Benson has shown himself to be, not the bogeyman, but the strong man of the Republican campaign, second only to the President himself...
...Harriman. The exception: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.,† whose magic name had been expected to push him ahead of Harriman. The man who beat Junior: Republican Jacob Koppel Javits, 50, a hard-working New York Congressman who is far more New Dealish than many Democrats. (He voted against the Taft-Hartley law, for continuing federal rent control,) Statewide, he ran 176,000 ahead of Junior, 36,000 ahead of Harriman. His total vote - 2,590,631 - made him 1954's biggest vote-getter...