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...main trunk -funds for ECA. Most Senators agreed with ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman that the foreign aid was not charity but self-protection; the difficulty was that Europe, being in no one's constituency, had to be debated on its own merits alone. Missouri's James Kem wanted to slash off $1 billion. Ohio's Taft offered an amendment to knock off $500 million, about 16½% of the total. He would favor cutting "every reducible appropriation," foreign & domestic, Taft declared, by just about that percent.*"If we hope to save $3 billion this year towards balancing...
...part of one afternoon and all of the next, Nevada's windy ex-prizefighter George Malone held forth, relieved at intervals by such helpful colleagues as Missouri's stuffy James Kem, Montana's Zales Ecton and Washington's Harry Cain, the great friend of the real-estate lobby. North Dakota's intransigent Bill Langer even dragged Winston Churchill into the debate, accusing him of serving with the Spanish forces against the U.S. in 1898.*When Churchill refuted the charge in a wire to Texas' Tom Connally, Langer exploded in almost unintelligible rage. Churchill...
...Wednesday four more blows fell on the bewildered opposition. Halleck announced that he would indeed deliver Indiana. Driscoll announced for Dewey, although his delegation was split. Senator James P. Kem came out of the Missouri woods, rushing for the Dewey camp. And right at his heels was Governor Robert Bradford of Massachusetts...
Senator James P. Kem, Republican of Missouri, get in the first cracks of the evening, claiming that the GOP "supported and stood on the principles of the Constitution." The Democrats, he said, were like a "one-eyed mule--a left eyed mule--leaning forever to the left and close to falling into the ditch...
Speaking for the Democrats will be Congressman Aime Forand of Rhode Island and Miss Catherine Falvey of the Democratic National Committee; for the Republicans, Senator Owen ("Hughes") Brewster of Maine and Senator James Kem of Missouri; and for the "Third Party," Congressman Leo Isacson (above) of New York...