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...last fight over Jackson Hole has not yet been fought. As the 79th Congress convened, Wyoming's Senator Joseph O'Mahoney readied a new bill, which would abolish the Presidential right to create national monuments by executive order...
...pork barrel. Last week his colleagues discovered that Kenneth McKellar had raised his sights. Still peering sharply for old-fashioned patronage, he began a cloakroom campaign to become Senate President pro tempore-a position which Virginia's able, venerable, but ailing Carter Glass will abandon when the 79th Congress convenes...
Speaker Sam Rayburn, Majority Leader John McCormack and Majority Whip Robert Ramspeck will be back to lead the 79th Congress. The man who never quite gets to be Speaker, Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin, was returned easily, to head a leaner minority...
...From Saint-Nazaire's riverside wharves a vast flow of heavy material had been run to the front over a U.S.-built railroad 27 years ago. At Brest many a U.S. division had poured ashore. At least two of those divisions-the 4th and the 79th-were close to Brest again this week...
...79th Division: Major General Ira T. Wyche, 56, pocket-size (5 ft. 6, 135 lbs.) West Pointer; a field artilleryman in World...