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...publicly against the menace of Communism, and became a prime target of Moscow vilification ("warmonger . . . falsifier of facts"). He firmly supported the Administration's European policies (ECA, NATO). After a round of international parleys, giving Republican counsel to Democratic Secretaries of State Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson, he left bipartisan diplomacy for a fling at politics, took an appointment by Governor Thomas Dewey as interim New York Senator (June-December 1949). Running for the seat at the polls, he lost to Herbert Lehman. In 1950, the Democratic Administration drafted him again to do a job no one thought could...
When Newsday's expose appeared last week, Suffolk County's prison officials clammed up, had "no comment" on the series. But this week the county board of supervisors gave a push to Newsday's expose by appointing a bipartisan committee to investigate jail conditions. In all Newsday's jubilation over a slick journalistic trick well played, there was one small worry: Reporter Kellerman was still charged with burglary. Kellerman already had his defense figured out. He contended that before he can be convicted of burglary, the police must prove he had broken into the bar with...
Phillipe Villiers-Allerand '55, sponsor of the resolution, said he had secured support from leaders of the other college political groups but that "the resolution would be ineffective if it were not bipartisan." Villiers' resolution accused McCarthy of "unfairness, vagueness, and distortion of statements" in his attack on the Harvard professors
American pressure groups usually watch Presidential elections from the grandstand. Because they welcome a bipartisan membership, and because their lobbying must go on no matter which party is in power, they tend to be stingy with their endorsements. The only exception comes when, as in the case of labor unions this year, the group's issue is clearly the property of one party and not the other...
Eisenhower, he believes, is "best fitted both by personality and political position to create an effective and widespread bipartisan policy which combines strength and flexibility...