Word: kefauveritis
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As soon as the nation's second and third domestic airlines-American and Eastern-declared their agreement to merge, opposition revved up on all sides last week. Other airlines, fearing sharper competition, protested. Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver said the merger plan has "the most serious of monopolistic implications"; Representative...
William Higgs, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a practicing lawyer in Mississippi, told a Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union audience yesterday that the Negro will need a political voice to gain equality under the law and in employment and education. He cited the example of Memphis, where, after the...
Every few years the U.S. public is treated to an economic wrestling match in a big steel ring. First, the nation's steelmakers, usually citing wage increases, begin to talk about raising their prices. Then from the U.S. Senate come powerful protests; Republican Robert Taft led the crusade against...
Big Thoughts. As a first-term Senator, Jack Kennedy had a legislative record that was nothing to brag about. But his political appeal was such that in 1956, when Democratic Presidential Nominee Adlai Stevenson threw the vice presidential nomination up for grabs at the party's Chicago convention, Kennedy...
But Senator Kefauver was far from bereft of support. To the witness stand he marched a parade of eleven noted doctors, nearly all of whom said that they favored S. 1552 only because they despaired of persuading the pharmaceutical industry to police itself. Outstanding items from their testimony: