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...open session what he had just told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee behind closed doors: the charges that he had knowingly sought Communist help in furthering his career were false. The matter was urgent-both for Jacob Javits and the New York G.O.P. Five days later some 300 Republican committeemen were scheduled to meet in Albany to nominate a candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Javits was the leading contender...
...soon after Butler had dried his eyes, Stevenson relented, reversed his decision, and passed the word that the committeemen could go ahead and elect Butler their chairman again. It was a hollow victory. In a private conference with Butler, Stevenson made it clear that Finnegan, not Butler, would be the "architect" of the campaign. Finnegan will set up headquarters in Washington, near those of the national committee, so that there will be no "two-headed monster" like that of 1952, when Stevenson campaign offices in Springfield frequently worked at cross purposes with capital leaders. Butler's only 1956 duties...
...last week it looked as if business-baiting would play a heavier role in the 1956 election campaign than in any presidential race since the 19305. But U.S. businessmen as a group gave little evidence of apprehension or even of quickened interest in politics. In Boston and Seattle, Republican committeemen reported that substantially fewer businessmen had volunteered for electioneering duty than in 1952. The same was true in Pittsburgh, where one industrialist explained: "Everyone figures Ike is a shoo-in. The same old warhorses are still the active ones in both parties...
...designed to keep speakers cool under the TV glare, and a built-in elevator at the rostrum is being installed to adjust the speakers' height to the cameras (which are hard to move, what with delegates about). Instead of rows of dignitaries clogging the platform, only a few committeemen and VIPs will be onstage-against a bare backdrop. ¶ Republican Bertha Adkins, assistant to Chairman Leonard Hall, is handing out TV-inspired advice to the ladies: no large-brim hats or veils ("they might keep the televiewers from recognizing their delegates"), nothing white next to the face ("detracts from...
...leaders of the ecumenical movement-the central committee of the World Council of Churches-met last week for the first time in Communist territory. In Hungary's resort town of GalyatetÖ, 85 miles northeast of Budapest, the 90 committeemen, plus 300-odd "fraternal delegates," observers and assorted bureaucrats of the 162-church World Council gathered for their annual meeting. Before an assembly including delegates from Communist China, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Poland, the council's Dutch General Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft said: "The World Council lives its own life in complete independence from any particular...