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Nevertheless, last week Bob Taft could view with satisfaction the job he had done. With Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, he was in command of all the legislation likely to come out of the first six months of the 80th Senate. It would be Vandenberg on foreign affairs; Taft on domestic matters...
Taft of Ohio is the biggest political figure in Washington, boss of probably the most efficiently organized G.O.P. Senate the nation has ever seen. It had disposed of Mississippi's Theodore G. Bilbo in the opening days (TIME, Jan. 13). Before the 80th opened, all Senate committee assignments had been made-largely by Taft...
...Philosopher. As the 80th Congress begins its critical two years, one thing is certain: the popular estimation of Robert Alphonso Taft is in for a change. In the days of Democratic power, his objections were termed obstruction. His political philosophy was termed reaction. But in other lights than the New Deal's he is a man of unexpected hues...
...futures list for the 80th Congress are these propositions: ¶Legislation which will eliminate economic crises, but without socialistic controls which "deaden free enterprise." ¶ A housing bill. He is co-author with Democrats Wagner and Ellender of a bill to provide $88 million in Federal funds for 500,000 units of low-rent public housing...
...television, it was a historic week. At the opening of the 80th Congress, the House of Representatives was televised for the first time. During interminable roll calls, television's great eye strayed about the House-catching children sitting still as Capitol mice on Representatives' laps, investigating the planetary glow of congressional baldpates...