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Finance. Eugene Millikin of Colorado, one of the Senate's ablest legislators and a tax expert...
MASSACHUSETTS : three-term Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the man who led the Eisenhower campaign through the troublesome months before the Republican Convention, now needs some help from Ike. Lodge, one of the ablest men in Congress, has always been an effective vote-getter. He is being challenged by Representative John Kennedy, 35, member of a famous Massachusetts family, a war hero, a good Congressman and an excellent campaigner. A coolness has developed between Kennedy and some Democratic politicians. Nevertheless, Lodge probably cannot win unless Ike carries Massachusetts by a comfortable margin...
...Democrat at that, for Lodge is the only Republican with the record and ability to assume Vandenberg's position. Perhaps, as Dean Landis and Kennedy alike insist, Lodge could not harmonize his Party with an intelligent foreign policy. There is no point, though, in purging the GOP of its ablest specialist on foreign affairs, of one of its few remaining vestiges of responsibility, simply because bi-partisanship is not inevitable...
...Asia." India and Burma refused to send delegates. The Filipinos did most of the effective talking. Philippine army men got across a series of lectures on how they had tackled the Huk guerrillas. President Quirino spoke up for "collective defense," and Defense Minister Ramon Magsaysay, one of the ablest of Asia's antiCommunists, struck the same theme: "Our government is committed wholeheartedly to alliance with the free nations . . . [against] the immoral concept of might making right...
...Clarence learned the fine points of oratory from an equally good source. As a University of Wisconsin undergraduate, he used to go down to the elder Bob La Toilette's office in the Madison courthouse to rehearse his debating speeches. The training helped make him one of the ablest preachers in his church. In 1924, William Jennings Bryan, an orator himself, proposed him for the one-year term as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A...