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...continuing his campaign against the State Department. Then Chairman Millard Tydings of the investigating committee prepared to pull that out from under him. He had learned, Tydings announced, that McCarthy's list was two years old. The cases had been investigated by four committees of the Republican 80th Congress. Michigan's Republican Representative Bartel Jonkman had voiced his conclusions to the House: "I want the members to know that there is one department in which the known or reasonably suspected subversives, Communists, fellow travelers, sympathizers . . . have been swept out. That is the Department of State...
Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft had been an ideal Republican leader in the 80th Congress when his sardonic criticism of all that was weakest in the Fair Deal, at home & abroad, was a good counterbalance to Vandenberg's high courage and decisive leadership in foreign relations. For a time, Republicanism had been a coalition of vision, realism and prudence...
...veteran Walter George. "Amazing and reckless charges," said Mississippi's John Stennis. Michigan's Republican Homer Ferguson pointed out that Byrd's committee was so respected by the G.O.P. that Byrd had been allowed to stay on as chairman even in the Republican-controlled 80th Congress. Half a dozen others rose to add their voices in praise of Byrd: Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry (". . . a great chairman ... a great work . . ."); Tennessee's ancient, irascible Kenneth Mc-Kellar; South Dakota's Republican Karl Mundt, who couldn't think of anyone in public life who "has contributed...
Last week the House: ¶After 34 years of thinking about it, voted (186 to 146) to make Alaska the 49th state in the union, then approved Hawaii's 30-year-old appeal for statehood (which it had approved and the Senate had rejected in the 80th Congress). ¶| Approved a bill establishing a National Science Foundation, after first insisting on an FBI check for all employees and scholarship holders...
...ills. In general they agreed that many U.S. citizens were not getting the best of medical care, but they argued that it was not because of inability to pay for it. The Brookings Institution, in a report-made at the request of a Senate committee in the 80th Congress, concluded that families with incomes of $2,000 or more (at 1941 price levels) should have no difficulty in paying for medical care if they cut down on luxuries (automobiles, liquor, tobacco, recreation) and savings...