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...Named Claudia Alta Taylor, she was called Lady Bird by a Negro nurse, and Lady Bird she has been ever since. -By comparison, the rigid Republican seniority system has buried such able freshmen as Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, and New York's Jack Javits...
...like to serve in a Government post. "I just wanted to do some good," he explained last week. "I didn't ask to be an ambassador." Straightforwardly, Gluck wrote four Republican Senators: New York's Irving Ives and Jacob Javits, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton. All four recommended Gluck, a heavy contributor to Republican campaign chests, to the Eisenhower Administration. Big campaign contributions will not get a Government post, but they may-under the Republicans as well as the Democrats-get a man's name on a list of possibilities...
...strongest in the organization-minded U.S. Senate, where Old Guardsmen pretty much run things and come-lately Eisenhower Republicans spend their time on the District of Columbia Committee (on the current District Committee: New Jersey's Clifford Case, New York's Jacob Javits, Kentucky's Thruston Morton...
...Johnson's mandate for a better job. ··· While Democrats last week were at least showing some spirit over committee assignments, Senate Republicans hewed grimly to strict seniority in passing out posts. To the lowly District of Columbia Committee went two capable newcomers, Kentucky's Thruston Morton (who also got Post Office) and New York's Jack Javits (who also got Rules). Faring only slightly better, Kentucky's other Republican, former Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, was awarded Labor and Rules. Yet to Indiana's Neanderthal Republican Bill Jenner, a second-termer...
...edge in the U.S. Senate. For a while last week it appeared they would increase that margin. But South Dakota's wispy G.O.P. Senator Francis Case, after trailing Democrat Ken Holum for hours, finally pulled through. And in Kentucky next day came a narrow victory for Republican Thruston Morton over Assistant Senate Majority Leader Earle Clements (see below). That brought the Senate count right back to 49 to 47 for the Democrats...