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Maneuver. For three days, the coalition used all the tricks of parliamentary procedure to get the sting into a simple Administration resolution aimed at endorsing the dispatch of whatever U.S. troops were needed to provide a "fair share" of Western Europe's defenses. Amendment after amendment was thrown in from the Wherry-Taft sector. But it was men within the President's own party who performed the big maneuver...
...amendment would convert the Senate into an operations section of the General Staff," Lodge protested, "something for which the Senate is not fitted either by training or experience or by its ability to act with secrecy and dispatch...
When Benjamin Harrison Reese became managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 13 years ago, he had to compete with a legend, as well as with the lively afternoon opposition (the Star-Times). The legend was the enormous reputation of his predecessor, lofty, autocratic Oliver Kirby ("O.K.") Bovard, one of the great managing editors of his time. What made matters worse was that Bovard, before he stalked out of the P-D (at the end of a long disagreement with Publisher Joseph Pulitzer), had made it clear that he thought City Editor Ben Reese something less than a worthy...
...campaign to raise the U.S.S. Monitor, the famous Union ironclad which fought an historic battle with the Confederate ship Merrimac on March 9, 1862. The ship was discovered in 120 feet (20 fathoms) of water, 20 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, according to an Associated Press dispatch yesterday. Sixth Naval District spokesmen said they have "no plans" for raising...
...Washington Post added: "All over the free world the censor is beating out the newspaperman. One light after the other is being extinguished . . . Is this an internal matter?" The Chicago Sun-Times joined with the Sydney, Australia Morning Herald in calling Perón a tyrant. The Richmond Times-Dispatch saw him as "an unscrupulous demagogue who would not hesitate to play ball with Stalin," while the Dallas News prophesied that he "can exist only by a constant accretion of power. This, in the end, will kill...