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...exceptions to this rule add further complications to November's balloting. The federal nature of our government causes party ideology to vary from state to state. In some elections a progressive Republican rates the nod over an unsavory Democratic candidate. But Republicans of the Stassen-Dirksen variety are far fewer than Democrats of the Monroney-Pepper-Mead mold. And, in the Congressional races at least, a mediocre Democrat is preferable to a mediocre Republican. A.G.O.P. majority in either house of the 80th Congress will mean two years of confusion and stalemate between the President and his legislature...
...tired House, Oklahoma's young, progressive A. S. Mike Monroney, Democrat, teamed with Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen to push the bill which had been fought through the Senate by Wisconsin's Robert La Follette Jr. In last week's maneuvers they lost the provisions for legislative policy committees for both minority and majority parties, and for an executive-legislative council. The reason: Speaker Sam Rayburn wanted to keep the four-man Democratic policy committee which meets with the President every Monday morning...
...Merely Phraseology." Next night Illinois' able Representative Everett M. Dirksen spoke in Old Orchard Beach, Me. He too had been offered a Manhattan factory-made speech, which arrived just two hours before he was to broadcast. The speech accused Franklin Roosevelt of seeking the Presidency "under false pretenses," and said that Governor Dewey would make a speech this week "and you'd better listen to what he has to say." As Dirksen sat on the platform waiting to speak, he hurriedly crossed out the strongest sections. Two days later his speech was the subject of debate in Congress...
Illinois' tousled Representative Everett M. Dirksen, who is really campaigning for second place, wound up his tour at Rockford, Ill. And Washington newsmen heard that Lieut. Commander Harold E. Stassen, talking to a friend under a palm tree in the South Pacific, had said he would not stop presentation of his name to the convention...
Colonel Bertie McCormick forthwith denounced Dirksen as a stalking-horse for Willkie. This seemed a little naive of the Colonel. True, Mr. Willkie called Mr. Dirksen "a fine fellow." But 35 of the 36 Dirksen petitioners are anti-Willkie. And Dirksen is a leader of the Congressional farm bloc. In effect, all this meant that a new group had arisen-and from the all-important Middle West-to stop Wendell Willkie...