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...present nine members of the city council, including Mayor Edward A Crane '35, are running again, along with 19 new candidates. Four of seven present school committeemen are in a field of ten. A University faculty member on the school committee. Robert Amory '36, professor of Law, will not run this year; he is at the Army's General Staff School in Texas...
First Move. The prime mover in the Eisenhower forces, hearty Harry Darby, wealthy onetime (1950) U.S. Senator and Republican national committeeman since 1940 from Ike's home state of Kansas, made his first move almost three months ago. Then top Republican politicians-governors, state chairmen, national committeemen-met in Tulsa to select a convention time & place. With Pennsylvania Congressman Hugh Scott Jr., who was Dewey's national chairman in 1948, Darby picked about 80 key Republicans and set to work on them, sounding them out on a stop-Taft movement and incidentally talking up Ike. In their conversations...
...McMahon-Morse resolution will probably not get far. Last week Foreign Relations committeemen took off for Europe to look into the foreign-aid program. They still have to get out a bill on the program. A number of McMahon's colleagues indicated a singular lack of interest. This is unfortunate, since McMahon's dragon will just be left out in the tall grass, there to flourish on fiction, undisturbed by fact...
...last fortnight for a 3,000-mile tour of the proposed St. Lawrence seaway, seasoned Washington hands wrote it off as just another junket. It was well known that a committee majority opposed the $935 million project and probably would let it die. Last week when the committeemen got back to Washington, it looked as though the experts had forgotten the old saw that seeing is believing...
...shook hands with Douglas MacArthur one by one, and found their places at a long table. Other Senators, admitted by a last-minute vote which opened the hearings to all members of the upper house, lined the sides of the room. In the center, at a table facing the committeemen, Douglas MacArthur took his seat. A gavel pounded furiously for order, vainly at first, finally with success; police cleared the room. The great wooden doors of Room 318 swung shut. In the crowded hearing room, the curtain went up on the most dramatic hearing in congressional history...