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Front-Runner Kohler, the only campaigner who had declared himself squarely behind Dwight Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism, faced some vociferous barking from the sideshows during the three-week campaign. Among the barkers: eight-term Congressman Alvin O'Konski, 53, whose campaign manager decided to sell O'Konski's blend of domestic New Dealism and mossbacked foreign policy by television and newspaper spreads "just like you sell a new potato salad" (and brought him in third). Another was Gerald D. Lorge, 35, a "fighting marine" who fought a campaign in Joe McCarthy's image, came in sixth...
...rebuff to the brave Hungarian and Polish people who are resisting Communist pressures." The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars took similar stands. Impressed by their mail. Congressmen in a petition urged President Eisenhower to keep Tito out. Wisconsin's Representative Alvin E. O'Konski even said he would consider resigning his seat if "a murderer and dictator" was invited...
...vote, the House passed the $3.2 billion mutual-security bill (also listed by the President). At one point in the debate, Wisconsin's Republican Representative Alvin O'Konski, soaring high on oratorical wings, nearly persuaded the House to refuse $50 million in aid to Yugoslavia. Cried O'Konski: "I'd rather appropriate $1 billion to the Devil!" Only last-minute pleas by House Speaker Sam Rayburn and G.O.P. Leader Joe Martin saved the grant to Yugoslavia...
...whole job had taken a little under three months. There had been a great deal of pushing, pulling and hauling on wrong ends. At the last minute the House, at the prodding of Wisconsin's Republican Representative Alvin Edward O'Konski, had added Franco's fascist Spain to the list of beneficiaries. Administration and Senate leaders, appalled by this blunder which gave Communists something to shout about, had got Spain yanked out. Bravely, at week's end, ERP floated...
...sang When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. The mayor had a word for his Polish constituents: "I will stay in the fight until you get your relief, a free Poland with the same borders as before the war." He had a convincing backer-Wisconsin's Congressman Alvin O'Konski who stumped beside...