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...House had voted for a $6 billion slash. Senate Leader Bob Taft wanted a $4.5 billion cut. But young William Fife Knowland, the junior Senator from California, was determined to have $3 billion of the budget earmarked for reduction of the astronomical national debt, and that could not be done if the Senate approved the cut advocated by Ohio's Taft...
...back bench, Knowland waited respectfully until Taft had finished. Then he rose and very firmly pointed out that at the rate of $1 billion a year it would take 259 years to wipe out the debt.* He thought the Senators ought to do it faster than that. He was calm: before the session, he had taken the precaution of lining up maverick Republicans on his side. He also knew Democrats would be with him, if only to embarrass Taft. A trifle grimly, Colorado's Eugene Millikin suggested a $2 billion tax payment as a compromise. Taft retreated...
Perhaps the closest race of all would be for Senator from California. The Democrats were acting as if the unseating of 38-year-old Republican William F. Knowland was the most important thing they had to do. To California went two of Harry Truman's Cabinet-Clinton Anderson and Cap Krug-and his ever-loyal Senator Alben Barkley. And Henry Wallace went too. They said their pieces for Will Rogers Jr. and other Democrats-while Will carefully ducked having his picture taken with Henry Wallace...
...needed the help. He was trying to carry the Wallace foreign policy on one shoulder and the Truman-Byrnes policy on the other. He was cool to the P.A.C.'s support, and there was evidence that the labor vote was sulkily indifferent toward him. Republican Senator William F. Knowland plugged steadily, made six or eight speeches a day, had already covered 38 of the 58 counties. Most politicos agreed that if the election were held this week, Knowland would...
...P.A.C. there was no consolation anywhere in California. P.A.C.-backed, fellow-traveling Congressman Ellis Patterson was snowed under for the Democratic Senatorial nomination by Will Rogers Jr., a regular Democrat. Rogers will face conservative Senator William Knowland, G.O.P. choice, in the November finale...