Word: thruston
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton is soliciting jobs for hundreds of Republican appointees who have left the Government, has sent thousands of letters to U.S. companies, notably to what he calls "large Republican companies." Says Morton of the job seekers: "From their knowledge and experience in their particular jobs, as well as their access to the Hill and the departments, they are in a position to make an excellent contribution to private industry...
...going to make a comeback," Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton said recently, "we're going to have to start picking up some statehouses." Last week the Republicans took a long step toward picking up one of the U.S.'s key statehouses. After a rough-and-tumble primary fight, former Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, 60, won the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey, and in the process proved himself an impressive vote getter...
...registered a gain of 20 seats, despite the loss of the White House. G.O.P. bigwigs, back in Washington after a round of Lincoln Day speeches, reported jubilantly that they had encountered big crowds, heartening enthusiasm everywhere. "There is still a fighting spirit in the party," said National Chairman Thruston Morton. "It is somewhat unusual after election defeat...
...Thruston Morton to the contrary, the election is really over, and Kennedy has won by a comfortable, if not comforting, margin of some 80 electoral votes. Thus any interest in the deliberations of the electoral college (which, by the way, met yesterday) was purely academic. The 14 unpledged Peck's Bad Boys from Alabama and Mississippi misbehaved, and there was a flutter of excitement over Kennedy's 55-vote lead in Hawaii, but the real issues in the campaign were, with one exception, resolved...
...chances were something like hitting the daily double five days in a row, but the Republican high command began to wonder if they weren't worth a bet. Three days after election, G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton had asked party leaders in eleven states to evaluate the narrow Democratic results and see whether expensive recounts (e.g., $50 a ballot box or voting machine in Pennsylvania) would be worthwhile. Most of the party leaders sent negative replies. But last week, after an emergency meeting of the National Committee in Washington, G.O.P. investigators moved into eight marginal states (Illinois, Texas, Missouri...