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Calling for subsistence increases for single as well as married veterans, Stanley G. Karson '45, AVC chairman, released last night a plea asking all students to contact, their Congressmen immediately to secure passage of the Rogers bill now before the House...
Republican Congressmen were pleased with the week's work. With obvious enthusiasm, the House passed and sent to Harry Truman the presidential succession measure which put the Speaker of the House next in line for the nation's highest office. Speaker Joe Martin, now just one heartbeat from the White House, said that he hoped President Truman would continue to enjoy "the best of health...
...congressional employees while the legislative appropriation bill was being held up, as it had provided for other federal employees. Little white cards with red lettering went out to the unhappy 1,500: "Pay day is postponed until further notice." That would also apply to Senators, but not to Congressmen, who had already drawn their monthly checks. But members of both houses were cheered to hear that the Senate's District Committee agreed with the House: the 15% rent increase which Congress had voted for the nation would not be permitted in Washington...
Rebels. Mormonism, with 74% of Utah's citizens, is still the greatest influence in the state's politics. Utah's two Congressmen and both its Senators are Mormons, and so is Governor Herbert B. Maw. Mormon politicians do not invariably follow the hierarchy. Neither the Governor nor Democratic Senator Elbert Thomas are "church candidates" in the sense that they represent the church's ultra-conservative policies on such matters as labor and foreign policy. Mormon voters have a mind of their own, too. Despite the church's opposition they gave Roosevelt a majority four times...
These questions face the Congress as well as the State Department. As usual, however, the Department carries the unpopular load of responsibility on its none-too-sturdy shoulders. As George Marshall faced doubting and irate Congressmen last week he might have reflected that he was not the first Secretary of State to be where he found himself. Henry Adams had noted...