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Double Defeat. Four had been offered, dealing with jury trials in criminal-contempt-of-court cases. The first to be considered came from Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton. It required that juries be empaneled for all criminal contempt suits arising under the bill. Ordinarily on the side of the angels in civil rights matters, Morton now found himself being privately accused by some civil rights advocates of just trying to show the folks back home that he knew who buttered his hoe-cakes every six years...
...Ohio's Oberlin College, which boasts the oldest campus convention in the U.S. (the first was in 1860), delegates picked Scranton on the fourth ballot, chose Kentucky Senator Thruston Morton for Vice President...
...Mother cried at the wedding," read a Monocle entry in "The Diary of Happy Rockefeller." "A man in the back pew sobbed too. I found out later he was Thruston Morton." When Astronaut John Glenn announced for the U.S. Senate, Monocle proposed "the John Glenn Foundation, devoted to subsidizing needy amateurs who want to start at the top in an unfamiliar profession." Now and then a Monocle crusade moves beyond the pages of the magazine. In New Hampshire's presidential primary this week, Republicans may choose, if they like, Monocle Staffer Marvin Kitman, who managed...
Cried Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton to some 200 members of G.O.P. national committees in Washington last week: "Get off your various-shaped duffs...
...Flaw." In the emotion of the moment, such hair-shirtism was inevitable. But it would be as wrong to accuse a whole people or a nation of such extremism as it would be to argue for hatred. And perhaps it remained for Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton, rising in the U.S. Senate, to best place it all within context: "It was not a flaw in the American system or the American character that struck down John Kennedy. It was not the sin of a city or of its citizens. It was not a tragedy that struck from some dark stain...