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...Republicans' position was this: they wanted to continue the committee (the old Truman Committee), despite the fact that it was not included in the La Follette-Monroney reorganization act, passed at the last session. The man who would head it would be Maine's Owen Brewster, who is itching to rake back over those years when the Republicans were outside looking in. But authorizing one special committee, Democrats argued, meant opening the door to many "special" committees and violating the spirit of the reorganization act. Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry was already knocking at the door with another...
Joining Rivers, Rep. Hinshaw (R-Cal.) asserted there should be a "complete and thorough inquiry in hope of finding a remedy.' Senator Brewster (R-Maine), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, said "people are getting afraid...
Hills & a Home. Cardigan's Headmaster William Brewster, 53, also runs a conventional prep school near by (Kimball Union Academy). Two years ago a friend, Dartmouth Alumnus Harold ("Hap") Hinman, took him to see a deserted estate near Canaan, N.H., with Canaan Street Lake at its doorstep and the New Hampshire hills at its back. To help Brewster and Hinman start their school, Dartmouth College, which owned the estate, sold it to them for next to nothing. Well-to-do New Englanders (among them: Vermont's U.S. Senator Ralph E. Flanders, the Boston & Maine's President Edward...
...subjects assumed that the book board would have the same high critical standards as the Memphis Board of Motion Picture Censors which turned thumbs down on Brewster's Millions because Negro Comedian Rochester had an important role, excised scenes from the Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 which involved Negro Actress Lena Horne, and banned The Outlaw, starring sexy Jane Russell, because of "too much shooting...
...been when the committee sat down to write its 492-page report: how much was the Administration to blame? With the filing of the report, many a U.S. citizen assumed that the case was now one for the historians. Not yet. This week, Maine's Brewster looked forward to the election of a Republican Congress; one thing he intended to push when that day came: a second Congressional Pearl Harbor investigation...