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...showman (he was earning $25,000 a year when he was 18, introduced the hootchy-kootchy at the Chicago World's Fair), admirer of George Washington (he organized the 1932 bicentennial), he entered Tammany politics after successfully retiring from the real-estate business at the age of 50. Internationalist and ardent New Dealer, pince-nezed, courtly Sol Bloom authored the revised Neutrality Act of 1939, helped pilot Lend-Lease through the House in 1941, in 1945 was a delegate to the San Francisco Conference that founded...
Light from Russia. Foreigners who keep track of the claims, and the prodigal expenditure of newspaper space on them, are inclined to doubt that they are signs of nationalism. These days Communism is in an internationalist mood and the claims of the Russian propagandists are widely pushed abroad. The purpose may be to convince prospective foreign proselytes that Russia, through the years, has been a source of scientific light and not (as was generally the case) a dismal swamp of scientific darkness. From this premise it is easy to argue that the U.S.S.R. is still a source of scientific light...
...Harry Truman. Before the November elections, Bob LaFollette, 22-year-old grandson of "Old Bob," made speeches for MacArthur; there were about a dozen avowed campus Marxists, and even one Dixiecrat. A Daily Cardinal poll showed students about evenly split between Truman and Dewey; they were also vaguely internationalist, and convinced that Russia would have to be stopped. The Cardinal, though, seemed more exercised by such issues as racial discrimination at the University Boat House and whether or not Harry Stuhldreher should have been replaced as football coach...
...most part, the Democrat won by large majorities, and produced some astounding surprises. Paul Douglas, a through-going internationalist, beat the Illinois veteran, Senator Curley Brooks, an equally thorough-going isolationist. Deleware's Senator Buck was upset, and in Idaho, conservative Senator Dworshak was edged...
Saltonstall will campaign on his four-year Senate record, which followed that of most internationalist Republicans in the Senate. He voted against last December's bill to authorize Presidential price controls; and against slum clearance and public housing provisions of the housing bill. He voted for the Taft Hartley law and to override the President's vote of the tax reduction bill. He supported an amendment to the rent control bill which authorized a voluntary 15 per cent increase...