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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last time the Polish Communist Party held a congress, back in 1954, Wladyslaw Gomulka was in jail-a Communist leader long out of favor with Stalin. But this time, as 3,000 delegates from all corners of the country gathered in Warsaw's ugly Palace of Culture and Science, Gomulka was plainly running the show and the country. His rasping, 200-page, seven-hour keynote speech was a catalogue of past achievement and future confidence, and if any in the audience still doubted the wizened little man's survival power, their doubts vanished before the week...
...Communist state, Polish farms are mostly in private hands. When Gomulka took over, there were 10,510 cooperative farms; today there are only 1,718. Last week Minister of agriculture Edward Ochab dutifully made Marxist noises about the eventual desirability of collectivization, but told the congress that no government pressure will be brought to force farmers back under the collectivist yoke...
Before a House Government Operations subcommittee, salty, short-fused Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover exploded with a touching plea. Unless Congress mows down the growing underbrush of Pentagon committees, he warned, "we will wind up with all committees and no work done. Our people have no time to do their work, for fighting committees. We need some protection." Lest anyone misunderstand, Rickover noted an exception: congressional committees are just dandy...
President Eisenhower echoed Stanton's "ridiculous," instructed U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers to look for solutions. The FCC, in full accord with the presidential action, suggested that any real remedy will have to come from Congress, which has the power to amend or strike out Section 315. But until the Attorney General or Congress finds an answer, Chicago still has Lar Daly on its wave length, and radio-TV newsmen elsewhere are wary. Wiped out in the primary as usual, Daly bought an ad in the Chicago Tribune to announce himself as a write-in candidate for mayor...
FAIR-TRADE LAW for whole nation is being pushed again by Congress protectionists, who want to allow manufacturers to set minimum prices. But chances of congressional and presidential approval are slim...