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...Minnesota's Joe Ball, New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith and Missouri's Forrest Donnell would study labor legislation. None of the four Senators is remembered for kowtowing to union bosses. Senator George Aiken of Vermont, labor's best G.O.P. friend and in line for chairmanship of the Labor Committee, was not included in Taft's group. Aiken could take part in the study "if he wants to, I guess," Taft said coldly. But it was "Ball and I who rewrote the Case bill last year," he recalled significantly. Harry Truman vetoed the Case bill...
Democratic Congressman Robert ("Muley") Doughton, who surrenders the chairmanship which Knutson assumes, drily observed: "The Republicans have promised more than they ever can accomplish. And now that they have the opportunity we will see just how they...
Russell Jackson 2L defeated Richard Axt '45, former chairman of the group, for the vice-chairmanship by a slim two votes. The key position of executive secretary went to Robert Wood...
...legislature Republican forces would exert vital power in committee to augment the blocks they could throw at Administration measures on the Congressional floor. In the Upper House, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who has consistently inaugurated, sponsored, and voted for measures designed to strangle price- control, would assume chairmanship of the Finance Committee. Behind the padded doors of a committee chamber, Taft would have power to do more than merely east another vote. With a record distinguished by support of the relinquishing of claims on tideland oil, and by his effort to kill the Hicken-looper Amendment...
...ballot for the Wood-Rankin Un-American Activities inquisition. Knutson, who might assume leadership of the Ways and Means Committee, did his best for democracy in withdrawing during the vote on the Anti-Poll Tax Bill. Energetic Sol Bloom, a perfect picture of a legislator, would turn over his chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the event of a Republican victory to Charles Eaton whose action in the field of foreign affairs extends to support of a measure authorizing the use of UNRRA funds as a political weapon...