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Senators Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.), Milton R. Young (R-N. Dak.), Edward J. Thye (R-Minn.), Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), Lister Hill (D-Ala.), and Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) have already praised the attempt to restore the appropriation to the full $15 million spent last year...
David P. Bicks '55, vice-president of the Council, announced that he had received letters from Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.), Milton R. Young (R-N. Dak.), Edward J. Thye (R-Minn.), Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), Lister Hill (D-Ala.), and Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), all expressing enthusiastic interest in defeating the House bill...
Ernest W. McFarland (D-Aris.) said that the final decision would rest with other ranking Democrats, and with Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Mr. Vinson has thus far said that he has no plans for reconsideration of UMT in his committee at this session...
Richard P. Russel (D-Ga.), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that failure of the present Congress to adopt a UMT program would be almost a "national tragedy." Russel pointed out that a Reservist can be kept on ready status, including two weeks training, for less than $450 annually, while a regular costs...
Administration leaders had conceded in advance that recommital of the measure would probably mean no further action this year and perhaps for several years to come. But Representative Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, has already warned that the committee will report the bill out again...