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Paul Butler of South Bend, Ind., the scrappy, unloved chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has an extraordinary instinct for survival. His enemies in the party have tried time and again to unseat him, but they have never succeeded. Now the anti-Butlerites are attempting to scare him out by withholding and refusing funds for the committee. Result: the national committee is in financial straits, is two months behind in the rent for its Washington headquarters, forced to beg for day-to-day handouts to meet the office payroll. Last week Chairman Butler struck back at his tormenters with...
After trouncing a Truman-backed rival in the Democratic primary by a margin of 2 to 1, Symington went on to unseat Old Guard Republican Senator James Kem by more than 150,000 votes, while Eisenhower was carrying Missouri by close...
...diplomats and their 16 dependents, life in Budapest is grey enough. They are often followed; their employees are often questioned and jailed. The Communist regime in Hungary is angered at the U.S. for steadfastly refusing to appoint a minister to the puppet regime, for trying to unseat Hungary's U.N. delegation following the 1956 revolt, and for giving continued asylum to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty in the U.S. legation in Budapest. Month ago the U.S. successfully led a fight to refuse to seat Hungarian delegates to an International Labor Organization meeting at Geneva. Last week the Reds' anger spilled...
Died. Crisanto Cardinal Luque, 70, aggressive, socially conscious Roman Catholic cardinal, first to be named in Colombia, who acidly attacked and helped unseat Colombia's corrupt Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1953-57); of a lung hemorrhage; in Bogotá, Colombia...
...years in the legislature, rose to be speaker of the lower house during his last four years, 1939-43. "He was the best parliamentarian the legislature ever had," says Democrat John Powers, now president of the state senate. In 1942, at the urging of Massachusetts Republicans who wanted to unseat an isolationist G.O.P. Congressman, Herter agreed to run for Congress, scraped by with some help from that old Massachusetts political custom, a gerrymander of his district...