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...Speaker, Halleck overrode Taft regulars to become majority leader, ramrodded through bills such as the Taft-Hartley Act and tax-cutting measures. Promised -he says-the vice presidential nomination in 1948. Halleck took Indiana votes to Tom Dewey only to see Dewey nod to California's liberal Governor Earl Warren. Halleck has never lost a chance to tell Dewey that the 1948 vote would have gone Republican had the second man on the ticket, no matter what his leaning, been a real fighter for the party...
...time I've been here I have tried to do things that were correct, and to be correct you can only deal with the government to which you are accredited," said Earl Edward Tailer Smith, the stockbroker and former member of the Republican National Finance Committee (for Florida) who became U.S. Ambassador to Cuba in 1957. Being correct meant keeping in contact with Batista, and that, to the new rebel government, constituted support for Batista. Last week, after the U.S. became the twelfth country to recognize the new Cuban government, Ambassador Smith, 55, cleared the way for cordial relations...
...other nationally known authorities on government, Stephen K. Bailey, professor of Government at Princeton, and Earl Latham '30, professor of Government at Amherst, will lecture on American political organization...
WILL 1959 BE MOUNTBATTEN'S YEAR? cried a headline in Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express. Next morning Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, walked into his office as First Sea Lord, waving the Sunday Express, beamed matter-of-factly: "The Beaver's attacking me again-I must be due for a promotion." Within 48 hours came the announcement: next July, when R.A.F. Marshal Sir William Dickson retires, Lord Mountbatten will become Chief of the Defense Staff, top military man over all Britain's services...
PERTH, Australia--A strained stomach muscle forced Alex Olmedo to the sidelines Thursday, leaving Barry MacKay of Dayton, Ohio, and Earl Buchholz of St. Louis to carry on America's hopes for a singles title in the West Australian Tennis Championships...