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California's William Fife Knowland, hand-picked for acting majority leader by Taft, was the leading prospect to succeed him. Last week he convinced Senate Republican leaders that a successor to Taft should be elected quickly to quash talk about party disunity...
This week New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, the senior Republican in the Senate, tried to slow Knowland's march, although most of Bridges' friends believe that he does not want the job for himself. In a letter to Eugene Millikin, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, Bridges said: "It does not seem to me that there is a pressing need for haste ..." Other Republican leaders dis. agreed with Bridges, decided to go ahead with the election of a floor leader...
...Young Old Hand. This kind of political maneuvering was not new to Bill Knowland. He is young (45) as Senate majority leaders go, but he is an old hand at politics. His father. J. R. (for Joseph Russell) Knowland. was a conservative Republican U.S. Representative in 1904-15. Young Billy made his first political speech (for the Harding-Coolidge ticket) when he was twelve, and at 16 occasionally sat in for his father as chairman of Republican committees in California. At 25 he was elected to the California assembly; at 27 he moved up to the state seriate...
This week Speaker Joe Martin and Acting Senate Leader Bill Knowland hurried to the White House for a conference and a progress report. After an hour and a half with the President, they agreed on a 10-point program of "must" legislation to be passed this session. "We realize that we will have to step on the gas," said Martin. Added Knowland: "I'm prepared to call the Senate at 10 o'clock or possibly 9 o'clock in the morning for the next two weeks, and we will stay until midnight if necessary...
...Germany to come home to Moscow for a policy conference. And in the Far East, an opportunity to press Russia's Chinese allies had been frittered away in truce negotiations that led to the dangerous and demoralizing conflict between the U.S. and Syngman Rhee-a conflict which Senator Knowland this week blamed on the failure of both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations to consult with Rhee...