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...presidential train winds through Maryland, where Millard Tydings is gunning for re-election to the Senate; Pennsylvania, where Democratic Senate Whip Francis Myers faces a stiff fight against Republican Governor James Duff; Ohio, where the President would love to kayo Senator Bob Taft; Indiana, where Republican Homer Capehart is up for reelection; and Illinois, where Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas has to step fast to be sure of another term. If time and disposition permit, there will probably be side excursions, including a lunge into Wisconsin for a few quick jabs at Republican Alexander Wiley...
...Leader Scott Lucas, "I learned that not much speed could be made by trying to make haste, and that we must let nature take its course in the Senate." Well, the Democrats had a 54-member majority in the Senate, didn't they, asked Indiana's Homer Capehart. Why didn't they get down to business instead of "playing politics, fooling the American people, and playing drop the handkerchief...
...these gifts, gifts, so many I didn't know what to do with them. How many wrist watches can you wear?" Now when a local wants to show its gratitude, Dubinsky has his secretary tell it what he can use. He points across the room: "Like the Capehart-I wouldn't spend the money...
Indiana's ponderous Republican Homer Capehart sensed a "sinister motive" in the bill. Georgia's Democratic Walter George saw nothing sinister about it but slyly suggested: Why not tax such expense allowance? "If the tax is too burdensome," he said, "when the President asks us to raise $4 billion additional taxes, he will have a gentle reminder of what it all amounts...
...Chicago, Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart appeared at 7 a.m. Wearing a cigar at a jaunty angle, trailed by a delegation of Indiana politicians which included the late Wendell Willkie's son, Philip, Homer stepped aboard the hushed train. A bodyguard barred the way to the Dewey bedroom. The candidate was not to be disturbed; he had set aside this morning for sleeping. The Victory Special rocked on into Indiana while Mr. Dewey slept on and Capehart and party huddled in car No. 3, an ordinary Pullman for miscellaneous visitors. Capehart was boiling. Not until three...