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...leading American educator, Conant will become one of three High Commissioners in the Allied Zone. The other two are French and English. Chairmanship of the board of commissioners is rotating but the United States Commissioner has always assumed the leading role...
Taft's logic did not automatically guarantee him the job. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, who was G.O.P. floor leader at the end of the 82nd Congress, would prefer to take the chairmanship of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. But California's Bill Knowland let it be known that he would run for majority leader if Bridges steps out. When Taft heard of Knowland's candidacy, he telephoned Knowland in California and offered to support him for chairman of the important Republican Policy Committee (Taft's old job in the 82nd Congress) if Knowland would...
Although Knowland did not commit himself, news of the Taft offer buzzed across the long-distance grapevine and irked even some of Taft's close friends. Knowland, 44, ranks 17th on the Republican seniority list. Why, asked the G.O.P. seniors, should Knowland be catapulted into the policy chairmanship over such venerable heads as Colorado's Eugene Millikin, ranked eighth, or Nebraska's Hugh Butler, fifth? There was no doubt that Bob Taft could corral enough votes to get the job if he wanted to fight for it. In the interests of party harmony, however, the odds grew...
Appropriations. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, who is expected to pass over the Republican leadership which he held last session to take the important Appropriations chairmanship...
...damage suit on the ground that his business reputation had been damaged. After his father died, Bob Jr. insisted that Ingalls Sr.'s stock be retired by the company under the 1943 agreement. But the fight went on, and his mother moved into the board chairmanship...