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Over a television program last week (“Open Mind,” NBC, New York, Dec. 6), John Emmet Hughes, formerly principal speechwriter for Dwight Eisenhower, a supporter of and now speechwriter for Nelson Rockefeller, announced that his conscience would trouble him less if Rockefeller were running on the Democratic rather than the Republican ticket. “In order for Rockefeller to qualify as a Democrat,” asked a panelist of Mr. Hughes, “would it in your mind be necessary for him to change a single position he now holds?” “None whatsoever,” said Mr. Rockefeller’s ghost.

Charging a violation of the new Landrum-Griffin Act, two rank-and-file members of the Brotherhood of Carpenters have asked the State Circuit Court of Marion County, Indiana, for a judgment against Maurice Hutcheson, president of the union, and other officers for allegedly misusing organization funds to bribe certain state officials. The decision of the court in this, the first test of Section 501 of the new act, will inevitably have a powerful bearing on what union officials choose to do with the “other people’s money” paid into union treasuries.

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Over a television program last week (“Open Mind,” NBC, New York, Dec. 6), John Emmet Hughes, formerly principal speechwriter for Dwight Eisenhower, a supporter of and now speechwriter for Nelson Rockefeller, announced that his conscience would trouble him less if Rockefeller were running on the Democratic rather than the Republican ticket. “In order for Rockefeller to qualify as a Democrat,” asked a panelist of Mr. Hughes, “would it in your mind be necessary for him to change a single position he now holds?” “None whatsoever,” said Mr. Rockefeller’s ghost.

Charging a violation of the new Landrum-Griffin Act, two rank-and-file members of the Brotherhood of Carpenters have asked the State Circuit Court of Marion County, Indiana, for a judgment against Maurice Hutcheson, president of the union, and other officers for allegedly misusing organization funds to bribe certain state officials. The decision of the court in this, the first test of Section 501 of the new act, will inevitably have a powerful bearing on what union officials choose to do with the “other people’s money” paid into union treasuries.