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...Secretary was also mad at Missouri's Republican Senator James P. Kem, who had charged that the Agriculture Department juggled storage rules to please old friends of the Administration. Senator Kem, said Brannan, was against "nearly everything the farmers needed"; what was more, he was willing to document the charges. Cried Kem: "I'm putting you on notice right now that, libel laws being what they are, you'd better document them very thoroughly." After Kem refreshed Brannan on his voting record, Brannan backed down...
...votes: one Democrat-Nevada's Pat McCarran, and nine Republicans-Illinois' Dirksen, Idaho's Welker and Dworshak, Montana's Ecton, Indiana's Jenner, Missouri's Kem, Nevada's Malone, Wisconsin's McCarthy, North Dakota's Young...
...Policy. FOR: the Marshall Plan and the special aid and loans that preceded it; the North Atlantic Treaty and arms aid; U.S. troops for defending Western Europe; Point Four. AGAINST (with Truman): participation by Spain in the Marshall Plan (but for a separate $100 million loan to Spain); the Kem amendment, requiring a cutoff in U.S. military aid for countries that ship strategic materials to the Soviet Union and its satellites...
...James P. Kem...
...senatorial contest has received more national attention than Missouri's. There James Kem, arch-conservative Republican, is expected to go after a second term. Attorney General J. E. Taylor, the only candidate so far for the Democratic nomination, offers no serious threat to Kem. But now Democrats are talking about W. Stuart Symington, the retiring RFC boss. Some liberal Republicans who don't like Kern's record, and a good many businessmen who normally would vote Republican, might go for Symington, onetime St. Louis industrialist. There has been speculation, too, that Kem might have to face...