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...Salzen revealed that Scranton, Sen. Thruston Morton (R-Ky.), Rep, William E. Miller (R-N.Y.), national Republican chairman, and Massachusetts Attorney General Edward W. Brooke were being considered for the award along with Lodge...
Double Defeat. Four had been offered, dealing with jury trials in criminal-contempt-of-court cases. The first to be considered came from Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton. It required that juries be empaneled for all criminal contempt suits arising under the bill. Ordinarily on the side of the angels in civil rights matters, Morton now found himself being privately accused by some civil rights advocates of just trying to show the folks back home that he knew who buttered his hoe-cakes every six years...
...Ohio's Oberlin College, which boasts the oldest campus convention in the U.S. (the first was in 1860), delegates picked Scranton on the fourth ballot, chose Kentucky Senator Thruston Morton for Vice President...
...Vanderbilt, delegates from 34 colleges showed up, orated for six hours and six ballots before they picked Nixon for President, were so exhausted they then took less than 20 minutes to name Morton as his running mate...
...Brooklyn College, delegates from 25 colleges yelled, pushed and got in a convention-floor fist fight before they picked Goldwater and Morton...