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Congressman John F. Kennedy '40 and former Congressman Thomas H. Eliot '28 analyzed the situation in Harvard Hall last night and concluded that Republican leadership was at its lowest obb in the 80th Congress and that Republican state officials are not catering to the needs of the people. About 40 persons attended the informal Liberal Union seminar...
...issues of this election are in the parties, Schlesinger said, maintaining that the Republican Party is the party of business. The basic question concerning the Republicans is "Has the business community learned enough since its last tour in power?" Actions of the 80th Congress, he said, indicate they have...
...exercise political control over the committees and the men who ran them. A Democratic-controlled Senate could pretty well sabotage a legislative program. A Republican Senate would make things much clearer. Dewey would then not have an alibi for failures, as Harry Truman had had with a Republican-controlled 80th Congress...
...factors have prevented the realization of President Truman's domestic program: his own administrative weaknesses and the antipathy of the Republican-controlled 80th Congress. But because this program seems to be more beneficial to the nation than does the program of Governor Dewey and his party, the CRIMSON urges the election of President Truman...
Whatever hell may be to others, hell to Harry Truman seems to be a world populated by the Republican members of the 80th Congress. The G.O.P., cried Harry, wants to put all the people of the country "in one big company union and run it for the benefit of the National Association of Manufacturers." The crowd roared. He sniped at Tom Dewey's theme of unity. "We don't believe in the unity of slaves . . . or sheep," he said. In all, he was applauded 24 times during the course of his prepared, half-hour speech...