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...Senate has already investigated the Hayes debacle, heard Air Force Housing Division Colonel Guy Goddard testify: "I think Hayes's work can be characterized as top quality. His main problem is that he does not pay his bills." The Capehart military housing bill, under which Hayes's contracts were let, has no provision to get the work started again. When work first stopped, the Continental Casualty Co., which underwrote Hayes's performance bond, offered a sensible solution...
...bank kept on growing until 1953, when economy-minded Treasury Secretary George Humphrey tried to liquidate it in order to get the Government out of the banking business. After 1954 loan disbursements dropped rapidly. By 1956 Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart had managed to convince Secretary Humphrey that Ex-Im's soundness and buy-U.S. policy helped U.S. industry without being a giveaway, and disbursements began a new climb...
...complaint from Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, who said after a tour of Latin America that the U.S. appoints too many do-nothing committees...
Stop & Start. The main theme of criticism is that the U.S. merely reacts to events-"stop-and-start" diplomacy, Capehart calls it-rather than taking imaginative initiative. One example of policy drift was Panama, where the U.S. was hastening to make concessions after a series of riots. Other examples: the no-medals-to-dictators policy, which came only after all but two of the dictators had fallen, and the $1 billion Inter-American Development Bank, which seemingly grew out of the stoning of Vice President Nixon...
Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart junketed into the Dominican Republic, paid "great tribute" to Dictator Rafael Trujillo for his "fight against Communism." Then he told Ciudad Trujillo businessmen about an experience of his as a freshman Senator. Tangling jovially with the late Alben Berkley in a private joust, Capehart twitted the then Democratic Senator from Kentucky: "If it hadn't been for the Ohio River, there wouldn't be any Kentucky. It would all have been Indiana." Confidentially responded future Veep Barkley: "Yes, and if that were true, I would have been the Senator...