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Highhanded Stand. It was a shrewd if highhanded stand; by long precedent the chairmen of Senate committees do hire and fire employees. But it is also understood that they get the consent of other members. Aware of this, Fighting Joe backpedaled a step or two: he agreed to drop Matthews, in return for the promise of Michigan's Republican Senator Charles E. Potter to go along with McCarthy's claim to sole control over committee employees. That got all three Republicans back on McCarthy's side again...
...Also, as Speaker of the House, he was keenly aware that Dan Reed's Ways & Means Committee was the traditionally unchallenged source of all revenue bills. Like all House Speakers, Martin was deeply conscious that his very authority depended on parliamentary precedent and the power of his committee chairmen. He could have ducked the whole EPT issue. But in recent months Joe Martin has discovered a higher loyalty to Dwight Eisenhower, and in that loyalty has developed a sense of leadership which his colleagues had never seen in him before...
...drive for "emergency funds" for completion of an indoor hockey rink here will seek some $327,000 by July 1, according to chairmen of a committee handling the campaign...
...Cabinet, composed of officers and committee chairmen, indicated that it might follow the alternative suggested to it by Sperry to deal directly with the Corporation if it was dissatisfied with the Committee's choice...
...same time yesterday the PBH Cabinet, composed of the House's undergraduate officers and committee chairmen, learned that the committee had denied its request to place additional men under consideration...