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...Senators Taft and Knowland and the rest of the Republican policy makers decided that "this was not the time" to revise the filibuster rule. Aside from independent Morse of Oregon, only five Republicans broke ranks: Ives of New York, Duff of Pennsylvania, Tobey of New Hampshire, Hendricksen of New Jersey, and Governor Warren's replacement for Nixon, Kuchel of California...
...sports Warren Duff's dialogue would be a credit to Mankiewiez. William Dietetle's direction shows near genius in the court room scenes, with Fd Regley, as the syndicate mastermind, radiating an injured innocence that makes Frank Costello look like a boy scout...
This is the sort of bang-up action picture that Hollywood often does well, perhaps because it has had so much experience at it. The Turning Point is a good case in point. Leanly written by Warren Duff, crisply acted by a competent cast and directed with vigor by William Dieterle, it is a smartly tooled thriller. Best scene: a tingling climax, in which a syndicate killer stalks Reporter Holden through a crowded boxing arena, trying to draw a bead on him from catwalks high above the stadium...
...Jenner and Cain in their respective states ... I do hope that we don't carry our humor too far and produce a framework of senatorial party organization within which it would be impossible for constructive [Republican] conservatives and responsible liberals such as Morse, Ives, Lodge, Smith, Saltonstall, Aiken, Duff and Thye to operate in behalf of the people...
Some Congressmen draw fees from insurance agencies or law partnerships. Some, like New York's Herbert Lehman, California's Bill Knowland and Pennsylvania's Jim Duff, are independently wealthy and spend a great deal of their own money on political activity. A most lucrative and common practice is the delivery of speeches for fees. The Democrats' Estes Kefauver, Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey are all regulars on the speech circuit. The star of the circuit is Vice President Alben Barkley, who has for years drawn fees up to $1,000 for each appearance. Barkley...