Word: thruston
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Kentucky: With Governor "Happy" Chandler lending only token support to Democrats, Ike and G.O.P. Senate Candidate John Sherman Cooper have slim leads. In the second Senate race, Republican Thruston Morton trails Incumbent Earle Clements...
...Dwight Eisenhower when the President flew down to Lexington last week looked more like State Department types than Kentucky politicians. Actually they are both: former U.S. Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, dignified and urbane, is running for the four-year unexpired Senate term of the late Alben Barkley; Thruston (pronounced throo-ston) B. Morton, clean-cut and sharp, was John Foster Dulles' assistant for congressional relations before he decided to oppose Democratic Incumbent Earle Clements for Kentucky's second seat...
Cooper's fellow Republican, however, had a tougher hill to climb. Former U.S. Congressman Thruston Ballard Morton, 49, also a Yaleman, astonished politicos in Kentucky's normally Democratic Third District (Louisville) by winning three successive terms to the House (1947-52), but he is virtually unknown outside the district. In the backwoods mining settlements of "Bloody Harlan" County, the mountaineers did not take kindly to the "furriner" with the citified manners and precise diction. But Kentucky's strongly TVA-minded citizens nonetheless liked the way that Morton frankly tackled questions on such local boiling points as Dixon...
...Dwight Eisenhower pledged himself to another kind of campaign: to fashion a new Republican Party that will bring into action the principles of Eisenhower Republicanism. To this end he has given his personal blessing to such new senatorial candidates as Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, Kentucky's Thruston Morton, Oregon's Douglas McKay and Colorado's Dan Thornton. But in the dual battle for both principle and ballots, no senatorial hopeful personifies more clearly Ike's kind of candidate than Art Langlie, honored by the party as the keynoter of the 1956 convention...
...Boston for minor throat surgery, decided against running last week because his job in India "is only partly accomplished." Cooper's decision not only forced the Republicans to dig up another candidate; it weakened the G.O.P. ticket and hence the chances of Earle Clements' November opponent, able Thruston B. Morton, 48, who resigned as Assistant Secretary of State to make the senatorial race. Morton, a three-term Congressman before entering the Eisenhower Administration, easily won the G.O.P. senatorial nomination...