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...home, the President's ambitious legislative program has bogged down. Hawaiian statehood and Taft-Hartley revision, for all practical purposes, are lost for this session of Congress. The Administration, it now appears, will not fight hard for its foreign-trade program-at least not this year. Eisenhower's farm policy is under withering fire. Foreign aid is in trouble, seems in for deep cutbacks. Housing legislation is holed up in a Senate committee. Meanwhile, the most conspicuous sight in Washington is that of Republicans locked in a death struggle with other Republicans in the Army-McCarthy hearings...
...President again last week. ¶ Even New Jersey's Senator Alexander Smith, usually an Eisenhower Republican, last week displayed this same lack of party responsibility. As chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, Smith had the duty of helping steer to Senate passage the Administration's Taft-Hartley revision. But after the losing vote-which was a real Administration, and therefore a Republican, defeat-Smith warbled: "I'm just as cheerful as a dickeybird...
...Shelved, 50-42, Administration-sponsored amendments to the Taft-Hartley Act. Arrayed against the bill were 46 Democrats. Wayne Morse and three Republicans (Nevada's saturnine George Malone, both North Dakota Senators-pro-laborite William Langer and anti-laborite Milton Young). The vote was a blow to the Eisenhower legislative program. But it also exposed Democrats to the charge of voting in favor of a Taft-Hartley status...
...After four months of life, the two-headed offspring of Cecil and Margaret Hartley (TIME, Jan. 4) died in Washington, Ind. of a respiratory infection. Said the father: "I don't understand why God didn't take them away at the start...
Longtime Communist Ben Gold, 55, president of the Fur & Leather Workers Union, was found guilty by a Federal Court jury in Washington last week of making false statements to a Government agency. His crime: filing a Taft-Hartley law non-Communist affidavit on Aug. 30, 1950, a few days after "fraudulently" announcing his resignation from the party...