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Ever since June 1952, when Lawyer George North Craig of Brazil, Ind. went after the nomination for governor, Indiana's two Senators, Bill Jenner and Homer Capehart, have opposed him. Craig, onetime national commander of the American Legion, won the nomination, and five months later was elected by the biggest landslide in Indiana history...
Craig, a blunt, direct-spoken politician who was governor at 43, did not bury the hatchet. In dispensing state patronage and favors, he ignored followers of Capehart and Jenner. In late December, before the governor had even taken office, Jenner warned: "George Craig will only push me so far." Soon, indeed. Craig encountered stronger resistance. A rebellious state senate, presided over by a Jenner man (and with a 4-to-i G.O.P. majority), took Craig's ambitious program and gave it a severe hacking...
Craig retaliated by using his patronage power, which was infinitely stronger than the federal patronage leverage available to Jenner and Capehart. Since practically no state employees enjoy job tenure in Indiana, the patronage-poor Senators were soon complaining that Craig was buying allegiance to his side with jobs...
...counterattacked. In a swift and skillful political coup, while Craig was keeping a speaking engagement in Topeka, Kans.. they ousted Noland Wright, pro-Craig chairman of the Republican state committee, and installed 32-year-old Paul Cyr, an O.S.S. veteran of World War II, handpicked by Jenner and Capehart...
...picture, as it developed last week, seemed remarkably cloudy. Three separate probes of the FHA were in progress: Capehart's, Byrd's, and another run by the Administration itself. Eased off the front pages by the McCarthy-Army proceedings, all three were left on the fire at a slow boil. It was evident that the Administration's housing bills would be held up, and might undergo serious revisions. Outside of this, not even the boldest of political prophets would be willing to conjecture on what the ultimate effects of the FHA scandals will...