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...rates the nod over an unsavory Democratic candidate. But Republicans of the Stassen-Dirksen variety are far fewer than Democrats of the Monroney-Pepper-Mead mold. And, in the Congressional races at least, a mediocre Democrat is preferable to a mediocre Republican. A.G.O.P. majority in either house of the 80th Congress will mean two years of confusion and stalemate between the President and his legislature...
...Indianapolis for their 80th Encampment this week went the twelve sturdiest of the Grand Army of the Republic's 84* surviving members. They needed their sturdiness. To G.A.R.'s ancients the raucous bedlam swirling around their chairs in the lobby of the Claypool Hotel was almost as terrifying as Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. But after 2,000 members of the Midwest Federation of Syrian Lebanon Clubs had packed up their tom-toms and left town, the old soldiers began to get attention...
WASHINGTON--Four prominent Negro spokesmen demanded tonight that the 80th Congress refuse to seat Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., in January because of his acknowledged membership in the Ku Klux Klan and his efforts to block Negro suffrage in the South...
...prophetic mood Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning last week made his farewell address to the annual convention of his New York diocese. He had just reached 1) his 80th birthday, 2) his 25th anniversary as bishop-a post from which he will retire in December (TIME, April 8). Manning, a leader of the Anglo-Catholic party in his Church, stirringly reasserted his own and long-held conviction that the Episcopal Church can "serve as a 'bridge church' and as a reconciling influence between Catholicism and Protestantism...
Henry Morgenthau Sr., veteran financier and diplomat (Ambassador to Turkey, 1913-16), made his annual birthday prediction: "Billions in unused resources are going to start us off on a real era of prosperity" at war's end. On his 80th birthday, nine years ago, he predicted that his son, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., would balance the budget...