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...agency put members of the U.S. Senate on the spot with the nomination of Charles M. Meriwether, 49, to be director of the Export-Import Bank-and the Senate did not like it a bit. Alabaman Meriwether was an acknowledged segregationist and 1950 campaign manager for Senatorial Candidate John Crommelin, racist and anti-Semite. Oregon's Wayne Morse suggested -and Meriwether stoutly denied-that he was a reformed alcoholic and a onetime Ku KIux Klansman. Meriwether's political know-how and his experience in the insurance business seemed to be his only positive qualifications...
...Test. As for flat "misstatements," Birmingham's leaders deny that the views of John Crommelin, a retired Navy admiral running for the U.S. Senate on an anti-Negro, anti-Semitic platform, have, as Salisbury wrote, "a wider acceptance than many Alabamans will admit." Fact: running in a gubernatorial election in 1958, Extremist Crommelin polled 2,245 out of 681,000 votes...
...thriving in the Ten Million's Manhattan headquarters-four small rooms just off the lobby of the Roosevelt hotel. A big American flag spanned the wall of the reception room. Five telephones jangled constantly. Mail poured in. Greeting visitors to the headquarters offices was Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin, who retired from the Navy in 1950 after being officially reprimanded for his part in the "admirals' revolt" against the B-36. After talking in Washington to Joe McCarthy, Crommelin went to Florida and, in consultation with General Stratemeyer, conceived the idea of the Ten Million movement. Now Crommelin...
This point of view has picked up some powerful spokesmen, including men like Senator Knowland and many of his Mid-Western Senate colleagues. It is not surprising, therefore, that the guiding heads of the "Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice," Lieut. Gen. Stratemeyer, and Rear Admiral Crommelin, both favored the widening of the Korean War against China. They and other McCarthy supporters have found themselves opposed by the Administration and by the majority of the American people...
...Democrats again won the eight contested Southern seats as anticipated. Lister Hill, Alabama's senior senator, defeated Independent Democrat candidate Admiral John C. Crommelin...