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...show of interest in ECA's $5½ billion bill for the next 15 months. Summoned to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Dean Acheson waited for ten minutes before Chairman Tom Connally showed up, then waited ten minutes more for enough other committeemen to make a quorum. Finally Connally snapped at an attendant: "Go out and see if you can find any more Senators wandering around, and bring them...
Like the city of Boston, the freshman Union Committee is having charter trouble. Wednesday night, the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs presented a new constitution at a meeting with Dean Leighton, Yard proctors, and Union Committeemen. That document would supplant the old system, under which the dean appoints Union Committee members with provisions for an election early in each fall. But the Council's proposals were received ill-favoredly by the freshmen representatives...
Union dance committeemen are considering a proposal to switch the location of their dances from the first floor of the Union to the larger rooms vacated upstairs when the Government library moved to Lamont...
...dinner of breast of capon on ham soothed no one; neither did Senator Kenneth Wherry, Nebraska undertaker and now the Republican floor leader, who wound up a luncheon speech by pleading: "Let's smile right now." The committeemen and women just couldn't see anything to smile about. There was a rebellion in the committee and the rebels were out to get Hugh Scott...
...Afterwards, the men who had denounced him, and whom he had denounced as "a clique of scheming men," decided to make his re-election unanimous, as a vote of "confidence." But the whole performance left the G.O.P. no nearer to the comeback trail than ever. The committeemen had demonstrated some of the things wrong with the party; not one of them seemed to have any real idea how to set it to rights...