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Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes's first piece of fan mail after he took over his broad oak desk in the Pentagon last February was a postcard from a Tennessean who, after seeing Kyes's picture in the paper, wrote: "You look to me as though you could spit in the devil's eye." Big (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.), craggy Roger Kyes* makes a similar impression on people who encounter him face to face. After meeting him for the first time, a Pentagonian remarked: "He looks like the kind...
Deal liberals, and Hannegan's heir presumptive. But he soon lost out to McGrath and retired from politics to become executive director of Theatre Owners of America (at a reported $60,000 a year). As Kefauver's manager, Sullivan will try to give the Tennessean's amateurish campaign what it sorely lacks: professional savvy and big-city organization on a national scale...
Complete unofficial returns showed Kefauver over Truman, 20,147 to 16,298, and Eisenhower over Taft, 46,497 to 35,820. The Tennessean got all eight Democratic national convention votes, and Ike, all 14 G.O.P. votes...
...Democratic platform of 1908 (candidate: W. J. Bryan) declared for a constitutional amendment permitting an income tax. The Republican platform did not, but the candidate, William Howard Taft, announced that he was for it. In the heavily G.O.P. Congress of 1909, the income-tax group, led by a fiery Tennessean named Cordell Hull, introduced their measure-aimed, as Hull said, at the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and the Rockefellers. The leading "plutocrat" of the Senate, Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, first tried desperately to stave off the bill, finally offered the constitutional amendment legalizing an income tax. Hull...
...editors of the Post . . . don't share this view . . . ; thus these sports pages will not carry points and selections." The World-Telegram and Sun also dropped points and selections, and sports editors as far from the crime as the Kansas City Star and the Nashville Tennessean announced they would give only local basketball scores over the telephone, lest gamblers be aided. The Milwaukee Journal stopped giving...