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Sheepherders, Yes. Last week the first cracks in the McKellar-McCarran empire began to appear. With considerable courage, Majority Leader Scott Lucas had led the successful bipartisan drive to pass an EGA bill without the crippling amendments written into it by McKellar's Appropriations Committee. Example: McCarran's proposal to give $50 million to Franco's Spain. Victorious in that fight, Lucas then turned on Pat McCarran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Empire Builders | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Ohio's handsome, white-haired John Bricker, who is beloved by the real-estate lobby, did not join the Senate's private slumming expedition (see above). He had other fish to fry. As the Senate moved into its fifth day of debate on the bipartisan housing bill, Bricker cooked up a whopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio Fish Fry | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...days, Indiana's stubborn William Jenner leaned against his back-row desk in the Senate chamber last week and shouted that the time had come for the U.S. to get out of Europe and stay out. "Spending in Europe is no longer needed," he cried. "This so-called bipartisan foreign policy . . . leaves the Republican Party and the American taxpayer holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Chipping & Chiseling | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Republican 80th Congress, Jenner and his fellow isolationists had felt duty-bound to tone down their opposition to party-and bipartisan-policy. With the Democrats back in control, their coats were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Chipping & Chiseling | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...prospect for two days, the bitter rivals got together. Emerging from the Palacio like a couple of spanked schoolboys, Jefes Carlos Lleras Restrepo of the Liberals and Guillermo León Valencia of the Conservatives pledged support to the government's peace program. As a starter, they sent bipartisan posses out to convince troublemakers that the killing off of each other's voters was no way to win an election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Peace Posses | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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