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Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, repeated Niebuhr's prediction of a likely Kennedy victory ("it's a magic name in this state") and added that Kennedy would be an "acceptable senator if elected...
Though not actively supporting any candidate, McCloskey indicated that he would vote for Kennedy in November. Preferring McCormack's ability and experience. McCloskey concluded that "you can't always choose the person you vote...
Confirmed as the new U.S. Ambassador to Ireland was Millionaire Contractor Matthew H. McCloskey, 69, a twinkly old brogan from Philadelphia who, as longtime Democratic National Committee treasurer, demonstrated his fund-raising legerdemain by staging the first $100-a-plate dinner in 1934. His potluck for politics held good when the Senate rejected a Republican attempt, 62-30, to return the nomination over some alleged finagling in the 1946 purchase of a Government-surplus shipyard by Entrepreneur Louis Wolfson. But a regular Irish stew may await McCloskey on the Quid Sod. Demonstrating his Gaelic at a Washington dinner, he bellowed...
Others at Harvard who are backing McCormack are Alan E. Heimert, assistant professor of English; Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law; Robert G. McCloskey professor of Government and member of the Faculty of Public Administration; Perry G. E. Miller, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature; Reinhold Niebuhr, visiting professor of Theology; Richard R. Niebuhr '47, associate professor of Theology, and William B. Slottman, assistant professor of History...
...members of the committee, besides McCloskey, were David D. Perkins associate professor of English; Elliott Perkins '13, Master of Lowell House; Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts; Richard T. Gill '49, Allston Burr Senior of Leverett House; Seymour E. Harris '10, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy; Samuel H. Beer, Professor of Government; Mrs. Bunting; and Dean Monro...