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Oklahoma's Bob Kerr was roaring around Nebraska campaigning for votes in the April 1 presidential primary. It was a high-pressure campaign. A man who will run if Truman doesn't, Kerr had the support of Old Pol Jim Quigley, perennial Democratic national committeeman, and plenty of money. He had billboards, posters, radio and television shows and 300,000 copies of a campaign newspaper...
Last week Mr. Low Pressure himself arrived. Estes Kefauver, the man Kerr was out to beat, flew into Omaha with a bad cold, called the press, radio and television men around him. He was in this alone, explained Kefauver. He had little money, no machine. "I'm not an orator or a great speaker," he said. "I just want to meet people, and discuss . . . issues with them." Then, with snowstorms crippling his schedule, he headed across the state, shook a hand wherever he found one stuck out of a sleeve. He stopped at a cattle sales barn outside North...
...trap known to politics. Kefauver's immediate strategy is to prove his popular strength. He will head, first, into the important primaries in Wisconsin and Nebraska, April 1. Wisconsin looks hopeful because the Truman forces are split there. Nebraska puts him squarely against Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr. as yet an untried, but supposedly potent, Midwest contender. If Kefauver vanquishes Kerr and picks up odds & ends of strength along the way, his next obstacle will be Georgia's Richard Russell (in the two Florida votes May 6 and May 27) and Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson...
Taxes & Economic Policy. FOR: Defense Production Act, extension of rent control and all major Administration control and tax programs, with one exception. The exception: in 1947, voted with Republicans to override the President's veto of the $4 billion Republican reduction of income taxes. AGAINST (with Truman): the Kerr bill to exempt independent natural gas companies from federal regulation; the Capehart amendment to require automatic price increases to balance rises in production costs...
...Vadis. Christianity v. paganism in Nero's Rome in the costliest ($6,500,000) movie ever made; with 30,000 extras, 63 lions, Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr (TIME...