REPUBLICANS: Without Chotiner

With polite finality, the Republican National Committee last week dropped the name of California's Murray M. Chotiner from its roll of 1956 campaigners. A Beverly Hills attorney with a fine talent for astute political management, Chotiner has long been a power in West Coast politics, played key roles in the successful past campaigns of such prominent California Republicans as Vice President Richard Nixon, ex-Governor Earl Warren, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland. But a Senate subcommittee's investigation into the services he performed for an assortment of clients with U.S. Government problems brought...

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