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South Carolina's Democratic Senator Olin D. Johnston was alarmed by the efforts of Businessman William A. Kimbel to renovate South Carolina's Republican Party. When Kimbel, leader of the South Carolina drive for Eisenhower in 1952, was named U.S. representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe last February, Johnston saw a chance to cause some embarrassment. He succeeded. The fact that it was mainly the U.S. that was embarrassed made little difference to Olin Dewitt Johnston...
...Johnston set out to block Kimbel's confirmation in the Senate. He named nine persons who "desired" to testify against the nomination. Most of the anxious witnesses were members of South Carolina's stagnant old Republican organization which Kimbel has been trying to clean up. But despite three telegrams apiece from the Foreign Relations Committee, all nine failed to appear...
...Olin Johnston did not give up. Cried he: "I'm standing firm until I can fully investigate Kimbel. I don't know him personally, but I understand he's a carpetbagger . . . I don't guess the world will go to pieces if Mr. Kimbel isn't confirmed in time to serve...
During the two brief speeches of the meeting, Oswald L. Johnston, Jr. '55, speaking for the affirmative, asserted that the University's tradition of 300 years was distinguished because of its exclusion of women. Fisher, the negative speaker, claimed that excluding girls from the College would leave Harvard men either monks or monkeys...
...state censorship. No czar, wily Will Hays became U.S. filmdom's No. 1 booster (and whipping boy), helped draw up prim production and advertising codes, closely regulated moviemaking from story idea to exhibition. After 23 years, he abdicated in 1945, turned the Hays Office over to Eric Johnston, went home to Indiana to practice...