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...Capitol Hill itself, there was another new team. Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen succeeded California's obstructionist William Fife Knowland as Senate Republican leader, and Knowland had been as inept a leader as was ever inflicted upon a President. In the House, Indiana's Charles Halleck, with White House blessings, ousted Massachusetts' aging Joe Martin as Minority leader, soon proved himself a whiplashing, gut-fighting leader who would go down the line for the Administration...
Brown can scarcely be blamed for yearning. Touted as a do-little attorney general (TIME, Sept. 15) before he swamped Republican William Fife Knowland for Governor last fall, Brown as Governor is doing a lot. He was barely in office before he forwarded a 30-bill liberal plan of action to California's newly Democratic legislature, pointedly marked the bills "by request of Governor Brown." Passed to date: Brown's recommendations for a fair employment practices bill, curbs on installment buying to stop credit rackets, a measure ending California's odd cross-filing primary system...
...William Fife Knowland had been U.S. Senator from California for 13 years, was the Republican leader on Capitol Hill, and almost certainly could have been re-elected for another term. But that was not enough for big. bullheaded Bill Knowland. He wanted to be Governor of California, and he had a longer-range eye on the presidency of the U.S. He went home, crudely shoved aside Governor Goodwin Knight, forcing Knight to run for the Senate. Bitterly split by the Knowland power play, the California G.O.P. organization tore itself to shreds, and Knowland was buried in the ruins by pleasant...
Watch the Backlash. Even so, no Democrats-and precious few Republicans-have grabbed hold of the issue with the firmness of Ohio's O'Neill and Bricker. Notable exception: the nation's most stubborn right-to-work man, William Fife Knowland, California's Republican candidate for governor, who had set a horrible example by splitting his already-squabbling party asunder over the issue...
Though his opponent in the U.S. Senate race is Democratic Congressman Clair Engle, California's outgoing Governor Goodwin J. Knight swings hardest against Fellow Republican William Fife Knowland. To an Oceanside meeting of wire-service editors last fortnight, Goodie argued bitterly that the Knowland-embraced right-to-work proposition on the upcoming ballot is "a non-Republican issue." Then Knight punched his running mate squarely on the jaw: "Since he injected a non-Republican issue into the campaign, I am under no moral or legal obligation to endorse his candidacy. We Republicans frequently have asked Democrats to vote...