Word: fiascos
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Gathering dust in some Capitol Hill pigeon hole is a bill that could have prevented the Harry Dexter white fiasco, and saved the present Administration much embarrassment. Written by New York Representative Jacob Javitts, the bill would establish uniform rules for conducting investigations...
Holding up their partisan yardstick, the Democrats measured off the record of the 83rd Congress last week and ruled it a Republican fiasco. In a radio report to the nation last week, Dwight Eisenhower measured the 83rd's first session against the broad aims and purposes of his Administration and ruled it a good beginning -"I repeat-only a little more than a beginning...
...throwback to the Spanish Inquisition. He calls in people and proceeds to make fools of them by twisting their answers . . . They have no rebuttal because they have no recourse to the press, radio and magazines. It is Nazi-like, and what makes it all so much more of a fiasco is that he has never been responsible for the conviction of one-of one, mind you-Communist...
What in heaven's name is happening to this country? Is every editor and everybody-not excluding McCarthy's nonstop idiocies and Eisenhower's latest fiasco in the tactless gift of a pistol to General Naguib-all hellbent on the suicidal lunacy of showing just how cheap and silly...
While Weeks must take the blame for this fiasco, the 24 Senators who influenced his decision should not escape unrevealed. It is common practice for congressmen to ask an executive body to review a decision. In this way, many unfair judgments are reversed. But in Astin's case, the 24 letters exerted such pressure that they outweighed scientific tests...