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Republicans had watched the President's entire maneuver with a wary and disappointed eye. In the sacking of inept Louis Johnson and the appointment of Marshall, a political issue was being snatched right from under their noses. When Virginia's Harry Byrd, a Democrat but no Administration man, rose to plead for the amendment ("I challenge any man who opposes this nomination to propose a better one"), Republicans leaped...
Italy: Freeman W. Adams; Howard C. Bennett, Jr.; Ruth C. Burke; Dale C. Byrd; Robert M. Durling; Joseph M. Goodman; Ernest R. Hacker (Second year grant); Hamilton A. Mathes; Alfred K. Moir; Freeland E. Romans (Second year grant); Clauds V. Pascila; Emanuel N. Turano; Raphael Zariski...
Italy: Freeman W. Adams; Howard C. Bennett, Jr.; Ruth C. Burke; Dale C. Byrd; Robert M. Durling; Joseph M. Goodman; Ernest R. Hacker (Second year grant); Hamilton A. Mathes; Alfred K. Moir; Freeland E. Romans (Second year grant); Clauds V. Pascila; Emanuel N. Turano; Raphael Zariski...
...Motor Carrier Claims Commission. Hook had run against Ferguson for the Senate in 1948. "The nominee is lacking in capacity," said Ferguson. Down went Hook. Then there was Martin A. Hutchinson, an able Virginia lawyer nominated to the Federal Trade Commission. Hutchinson had run against Senator Harry Byrd in the 1946 primary-Byrd's first opposition in 21 years. Byrd told the Senate that he did not want Hutchinson to be an FTC commissioner; he did not bother to discuss Hutchinson's qualifications. The Senate backed up Byrd...
...Bridges, long a sharp-tongued critic of Administration foreign policy. Sage old Charles Eaton, top Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, agreed: "We've got a rattlesnake by the tail and the sooner we pound its damn head in, the better." Added Virginia's Democrat Harry Byrd, leader of the Dixie dissenters, "This is a time for unity, as we must...