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...meetings of the eleven-man Senate Republican Policy Committee. "I was trying," he says, "to condition them a little as to what I had in mind for this bill." There was some grousing, mostly from New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper and Kentucky's Thruston Morton, who were upset over the bill's equal-employment-opportunity section. To a certain extent, Dirksen agreed with them; his own Illinois has strong laws in this area, and Ev found that the bill might usurp states' jurisdiction. His amendment took away the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's right to file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Covenant | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Kentucky (24): Senator Thruston Morton was thinking of entering the convention as a favorite son, but decided against it, so Barry should pick up 13 here. The rest are uncommitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CALLING THE ROLL OF DELEGATES | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...none of these come over well on television. The fashion nowadays is to select younger, better-looking men to project the party's image. Thus, the Republican National Committee last week named Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield, 41, temporary chairman and keynoter and Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, 56, permanent chairman for the July 13 nominating convention in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Projecting the Image | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...Thruston (rhymes with Houston) Morton's Kentucky nudges the Mason-Dixon line, and his appointment offers calculated appeal to Southerner and Midwesterner alike. Morton is the seventh-generation member of a leading Kentucky family, a Yale graduate with citified manners and a Brooks Brothers look about him. Yet not even the backwoods folks of Kentucky mistake him for anything but what he is: a tough politician in a state that grows tough politicians. Big (6 ft. 2 in. and 190 lbs.) Thruston Morton is a shade to the rough-cut side of Mark Hatfield. But his vibrant voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Projecting the Image | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...Salzen revealed that Scranton, Sen. Thruston Morton (R-Ky.), Rep, William E. Miller (R-N.Y.), national Republican chairman, and Massachusetts Attorney General Edward W. Brooke were being considered for the award along with Lodge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYRC Fails to Attract 'Big Name' For Republican Man-of-Year Award | 5/25/1964 | See Source »

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