POLITICAL NOTES: Who's for Whom, Oct. 22, 1956

¶The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, pro-Stevenson in 1952, endorsed Eisenhower. Explained Guy L. Brown, boss of the 80,000-member independent union: U.S. prosperity is a direct result of Ike's fiscal and labor policies, and "it would be a terrible mistake to make a change in the administration."

¶Dan Turner, Iowa farmer, onetime (1931-33) Iowa governor, strong 1952 Ike-man and lifetime Republican, who last month called for the resignation of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, shifted to Stevenson-Kefauver.

¶Lewis Douglas, Arizona banker, the New Deal's first (1933) Director of the Budget, U.S. Ambassador to...

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