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...expected, the harshest words of the evening were reserved for Furcolo. "A vote for Foster Furcolo," said Schlesinger, "would be a vote for a young Pat McCarran in the U.S. Senate...
From Irving Ives, after his wife's skirt was spattered by a ripe tomato in Watertown, came some of the harshest language yet heard in a harsh U.S. political season. Cried Ives: "I've been under worse fire than that. I can't be more eloquent in what I have to say about this opposition than what has just been done here on this platform. It was aimed at me, and it's all right, because it came by indirection from Tammany Hall, the outfit that's running this campaign on the Democratic side...
...harshest critic of Republican foreign policy is California's Republican William Knowland, who is also the Senate majority leader. The most powerful opponents of liberalized foreign trade...
...dislikes range from the standardization of U.S. life to the hero worship of scientists. He thinks the post-office service is terrible and Hollywood movies an abomination. He cannot abide quiz programs, and he would like to see oldfashioned, full-length hand brakes returned to cars. His harshest words are reserved for New York City as a place to live and work. He hates its noise and dirt; he condemns its schools, its houses, its transportation. In fact, says Author Barzun, "we would settle for Hell as our next stopping place: living conditions could be no worse there...
This shifting political footwork makes him just as unpredictable in his view of the Republican Administration. Lawrence alternates between referring to President Eisenhower's "tragic plight" and hailing his economic proposals as the most "dynamic from an economic viewpoint [that have] ever been brought forth." His harshest words are for the "socalled liberals, New Deal writers, left-wingers" and Democrats who were "blind to the Communist menace...