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Solidarity. One other matter which Republicans chewed over was their own internal organization. Joe Martin, as expected, will be Speaker of the House. The rivalry between Indiana's Charlie Halleck and Ohio's Clarence Brown for House majority leader will be fought out spiritedly; other candidates may complicate the race. But there was no sign of any deep developing rifts among the triumphant G.O.P. leaders. Vandenberg will preside over the Senate as president pro tem. Elderly (69) Wallace White, ineffectual minority leader during G.O.P. underdog days, will become majority leader by courtesy. The G.O.P. spark plug will...
Editorial writers and columnists, thumbing their history books, clucked dubiously. In a front-page open letter, however, the New Dealing Chicago Sun urged the President to take "this patriotic and courageous step." The Republican New York Sun replied by quoting Indiana's Republican Representative Halleck: this is not our way of doing things...
...majority leader would have to be elected. Charlie Halleck, of Indiana, thought that was already decided: "Hell, I am the next majority leader. Clarence Brown 'hasn't got a chance." But Brown, who is National Committee Chairman Carroll Recce's man, might not know it. Joe had to hammer out harmony...
Solid & Orderly. Massachusetts' Joe Martin, a politician's politician who as leader of the opposition has had little to do in the last decade except try to keep his guerrillas in hand, would reap his reward and become Speaker of the House. Indiana's Charlie Halleck, a repentant Willkieite now in the Chicago Tribune fold, would become Majority Leader. Illinois' Leo E. Allen, an undistinguished but faithful GOPster, would become chairman of the powerful Rules Committee which controls the House's business...
...Needle. Buoyed by his visit home, Slaughter kept right on slaughtering. Last week, along with Indiana's Republican Charles Halleck, he slipped a hot needle into the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. Into a House resolution to check into 1946 election expenditures, they inserted a clause to include "labor organizations and committees thereof...