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Influence Imported. Hawaii had a few defenders. Illinois' Republican Representative Harold Velde, who has never been accused of being a Communist sympathizer, said that the Communist influence in Hawaii stems from California, and added: "The state of Hawaii would be better able and more inclined to fight the influence of Communism as a state than as a territory." Nebraska's Republican A. L. Miller pointed out that a 1951 FBI report listed only 36 known Communists in Hawaii (as opposed to more than 20,000 in John Pillion's home state) and that seven of the Hawaii...
...Difference. Overnight activity was furious. Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold Cooley sent word to the New York City delegation that if the farm bill failed there was no chance of a $1.25 minimum wage law. Democratic Whip Carl Albert made the rounds with the same message. Sam Rayburn began collecting political lOU's. Telegrams from labor leaders poured in, urging Representatives to support peanuts. The C.I.O.-P.A.C. rushed in its crack legislative liaison man, Bob Oliver, to work the House corridors...
...success" of the foreign-aid program, wrote Dwight Eisenhower to his Secretary of State last month, would be the man picked to head the State Department's new International Cooperation Administration, which would take over most of the work of Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration. Having no man in mind, John Foster Dulles turned over the search for the policy-making executive to his Under Secretary, Herbert Hoover Jr., and five days later headed north for a Duck Island vacation...
...elder Hoover after World War I, helped him dispense relief in Poland and Lithuania. After World War II, Hollister served briefly with UNRRA. But to many foreign-aid supporters, the Hollister appointment sounded off key, not at all in harmony with Predecessors Paul Hoffman, Averell Harriman and Harold Stassen. Some of Stassen's top aides muttered that they would quit rather than work under Hollister. The Washington Post expressed "misgivings" based on 1) reports that a Hoover Commission task force will propose to atomize the foreign-aid setup, scattering the fragments among various departments, and 2) Hollister...
...Harold L. Goodwin, test operations director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, said that anyone within one mile of the blast would have been killed by radiation or flying debris. A few people in deep bomb shelters might have survived, but even two miles from the blast injuries would have been serious and few would have escaped...