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...already been met with sharp criticism from New Deal Democrats and other advocates of big government and the welfare state. Quieter, but perhaps more important, is the resistance from entrenched bureaucracy, military and civilian, and from powerful business groups that want special Government services. Not all opponents are New Dealish; many pay obeisance to the doctrines of free enterprise. Much of Government expansion, including some Government competition with business, has resulted from business pleas for Government help...
...prospects for harmony on many domestic issues seem equally good. Democratic House Leader McCormack went so far as to call some of the President's proposals "New Dealish." In all, it seems that the Democrats are determined not to be responsible for a "good-for-nothing, do-nothing" 84th Congress...
...Democrats' statewide candidates squeaked into office with Harriman. The exception: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.,† whose magic name had been expected to push him ahead of Harriman. The man who beat Junior: Republican Jacob Koppel Javits, 50, a hard-working New York Congressman who is far more New Dealish than many Democrats. (He voted against the Taft-Hartley law, for continuing federal rent control,) Statewide, he ran 176,000 ahead of Junior, 36,000 ahead of Harriman. His total vote - 2,590,631 - made him 1954's biggest vote-getter...
...Washington Post (circ. 201,645) and Washington Times-Herald (253,532) were about as unlike as two metropolitan dailies could be: the Post is internationalist and often New Dealish, although it backed Eisenhower; the Times-Herald was isolationist and archconservative, bore unhappily with Ike. But last week the two papers came to complete agreement on one of the biggest newspaper deals in U.S. history. For $8,500,000 the Post's Board Chairman Eugene Meyer, 78, bought the ailing (estimated $500,000 loss last year) Times-Herald from its ailing publisher, Colonel Robert R. (Chicago Tribune) McCormick...
...term expires in May. To support their plea to keep Clapp, a delegation of TVA area residents headed by S. (for States) R. (for Rights) Finley of Chattanooga, handed President Eisenhower a stack of petitions bearing 60,321 signatures. But Eisenhower wants an administrator with a less New-Dealish background. Likeliest candidate: Chattanooga egg dealer and longtime GOPolitician, Harry C. Carbaugh...