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Fred Alger made his biggest political mistake four years ago. During the Republican administration of Governor Kim Sigler, Alger got Soapy appointed to a Democratic vacancy on the bipartisan state liquor control commission. He misjudged Soapy's ebullient New Dealism, his youthful enthusiasm and his common touch as the signs of a willing political amateur. But genial, hard-plugging Soapy traveled the state like no liquor commissioner in history, soon turned a host of liquor dealers into personal friends, and turned his job into a first step on the Michigan political ladder. Kim Sigler's successor as governor...
Soapy's old Princeton buddy Stan Backus is a solid Republican, but last week he voiced a kind of pathetic bipartisan concern about the prodigy. "Today, when the class of '33 gets together, we talk about Soap," said Backus. "He's the guy who has done the most and gone the farthest. But I've stopped trying to explain him to my friends. For a while I would stand up for him and make excuses for his actions. But I can't any more. It's strange. We always looked to Soapy for ideals...
...deadlock tightened, tempers flared higher. Congress seethed with rancorous argument over the President's highhanded seizure of steel. Ohio's Republican Representative George H. Bender asked for a bipartisan committee to consider impeachment of Harry Truman. The Senate Labor Committee (favorable to the Administration) began hearings on a bill that would regulate Government seizures. The Senate Judiciary Committee (unfavorable to the Administration) prepared to rake over the constitutionality of Truman's action. With the Administration still backing him up, Steelworker Boss Philip Murray berated the companies, and called for the full WSB score, down to the last...
...bipartisan front, so shattered elsewhere, held firm last week as the Senate closed debate on ratification of the peace treaty with Japan. A heavy majority of Democrats and Republicans, 66 to 10,* voted for ratification of the treaty drafted last September in San Francisco. They followed up by approving the three mutual defense treaties, with Japan, the Philippines and Australia-New Zealand, that frame U.S. security in the Pacific...
...Lecture Hall last night, Thomas told an audience of about 300 that "we don't particularly need a bipartisan foreign policy, what we need is an intelligent...