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...Congress, struggling to maintain unity in a divided nation, listened fearfully as John C. Calhoun mobilized the minority to arrest the will of the majority. The 39th Congress, filled with anger as it viewed the ashes of civil war, followed the vengeful leadership of Thaddeus Stevens. In 1955 the 84th Congress represents a nation long weary of crisis and war, panaceas and promises. It is symbolized by a man whose son says: "He doesn't have a remedy for everything that ails the universe." The 84th's most influential figure is Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter Franklin...
...most re-e-eason-able." In U.S. politics reasonableness has not always been the way to leadership. But Walter George's approach, leading him inevitably to the middle of the political road, is peculiarly fitted to the present mood of the nation and the problems of the 84th Congress...
...84th Congress is deeply concerned with the destiny of the U.S. in a world of upheaval. So is Walter George. The Congress is vitally interested in a stable national economy. So is George. The Congress does not seek to spoonfeed the nation with welfare cure-alls or sociological pink pills. Neither does George...
...preparation for the grueling affair, Chrisman entered the Brighton Read Race and finished 40th in a strong field of more than 100. Pates placed 84th in the 10 1/2 mile Cathedral Run in South Boston...
During this session, while the 84th Congress has been deliberating on the state of the U.S.. Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith has been seen on Edward R. Murrow's television program as she traipsed around the globe-e.g., to Formosa, India, Spain. A pixy TV program called Masquerade Party has achieved a clown's gallery of Senators, e.g., Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart came with a Roman toga draped around his aldermanic figure, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt and his wife appeared as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity...