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...show. First, Republican Whip Kenneth Wherry tried to get an agreement on a time to vote. But Oregon's dapper New Dealing Republican Wayne Morse, who had opposed the Taft-Hartley bill from the beginning, objected to any closing of debate. Republican Morse joined with Democrats Claude Pepper, Harley Kilgore, Glen Taylor to filibuster...
Last week the court-martial acquitted Little of all charges. But the case did not die there. Some veterans' organizations raised the familiar charge that Navy courts-martial have one brand of justice for enlisted men and another for fellow officers. West Virginia's Senator Harley M. Kilgore and New York's Democratic Representative Donald O'Toole demanded that the secret record of the proceedings be opened up for congressional inspection. Said Kilgore: "Such [secret] trials may be necessary in wartime, but they certainly are contrary to our peacetime ideas of justice...
Unlike the average Victorian hero, Author Collins did not let an angry flush mantle his high brow, and rush off to thrash the cad with a riding crop. Like a sensible novelist, he gently escorted the lady to his house in Harley Street (where she was to live as his mistress for many years) and made haste to turn their fortunate meeting into Chapter I of his next novel, The Woman in White. This novel, and its thrilling successor, The Moonstone, made Wilkie Collins one of Victorian England's richest and most popular writers...
Triple Alliance. In Hollsopple, Pa., Mildred Holsopple married Harley Holsopple, announced that they would live in Hollsopple ever after...
West Virginia. Last week, John Lewis' United Mine Workers, a potent factor in all West Virginia elections, withheld endorsement of either Democratic Senator Harley Martin Kilgore (who expected U.M.W. support) or peppery, 42-year-old Navy Veteran Tom Sweeney of Wheeling. Harley Kilgore was worried not so much by absence of the miners' blessing as by absence of miners' meat. Smart, energetic Tom Sweeney figured that his chances had risen from 50-to-50 to 52-to-48. The prospect: a hard-run race...