Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche this week appointed a new U.S. Senator to succeed Robert A. Taft. He named his old friend and protégé, Cleveland's Mayor Thomas A. (for nothing) Burke. A quiet, round-faced lawyer, 54-year-old Tom Burke has been in public office during much of his life. In 1941 Lausche, then mayor, appointed him Cleveland's law director, the No. 2 position in the city government. He became Lausche's right-hand man, stepped up to the Mayor's chair in 1945, after Lausche was elected governor. Burke, popular and able, has been mayor ever since, winning four elections to two-year terms. Last...
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