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Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart had a similar bone to pick with the Pentagon. The Army had asked Cartoonist George Baker to donate the use of his baggy, wistful comic-strip child, Sad Sack, to help the recruiting drive. Sad Sack first appeared in Yank, the wartime weekly, became so popular that he now runs in some 90 U.S. papers. With Cartoonist Baker's permission, the Army got out a comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes...
...five: Indiana's Capehart, Montana's Ecton, North Dakota's Langer, Kansas' Schoeppel, Missouri's Kern...
...which were of the Administration's own making, President Truman last week sent a message to Congress demanding repeal of three sections of the Defense Production Act, which he had signed under protest. The three sections which did "the greatest damage to price controls," he said, were: the Capehart amendment, allowing manufacturers to add increased costs to their prices; the Herlong amendment, allowing retailers to charge the same percentage markups as before Korea, and the Butler-Hope amendment, banning slaughtering quotas in the meat business. Those amendments, said the President, may cost consumers "billions and billions of dollars...
...work of a Southern Democrat-Republican coalition against him, so he couldn't really put the blame simply on the G.O.P. He tried to get the same effect by concentrating his fire on two Republican amendments: the Butler-Hope amendment, wiping out slaughter controls on beef, and the Capehart amendment guaranteeing business a pre-Korea profit, which the President characterized as "like a bulldozer, crashing aimlessly through existing price formulas, leaving havoc in its wake...
...occasional waspish exchange. One was set off by Michigan's Senator Blair Moody, the newspaperman who succeeded Arthur Vandenberg. New, talkative and not yet hep to all the club customs, Moody triumphantly disclosed how a colleague had voted in a closed committee. Indiana's Homer Capehart, Moody said, had raised his hand in favor of throwing out all wage and price controls. The outraged Capehart did not think it was necessary "to have persons snooping to see whether a Senator holds up his hand. I wish to say that I do not like such tactics," sniffed Capehart...