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...Homer Capehart...
...Amended Senator Homer Capehart's standby controls bill, gave Congress, not the President, the power to throw the switch on controls in case of a grave national emergency, then passed the bill and sent it on to the House...
This year, pushing his bill along, Capehart has repeatedly pointed out that if there is a new, great emergency he wants prices frozen immediately to prevent a repetition of the 1950 inflation...
...When Capehart's committee completed its work on the bill, Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, an old Capehart antagonist, proposed that the committee vote its thanks for the chairman's fine work. Said Douglas, with admiration in his voice:"You could not serve under a better chairman. He's fairminded, decent, generous." The Salesman. On the Senate floor last week, one of Capehart's dismayed old friends, Utah's Republican Senator Wallace Foster Bennet, an ex-president of the N.A.M., argued that the U.S. should never again have economic controls except as "the last...
...this instance we Republicans have a responsibility. We have a Republican President, and we control both houses of Congress. If during our tenure of office a grave emergency strikes, we, and we alone, will have to deal with it."Political responsibility has changed Capehart in many ways. In his new role as a committee chairman and top-ranking member of the Senate majority, he works harder (twelve to 15 hours a day; 3,000 letters a week), but he is more relaxed and his desk is neater-it is arranged in well-defined piles, not in the huge, disorderly mounds...