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...tried the Times's Washington bureau. But Pundit Arthur Krock, who then headed the 24-man bureau, also advised him to go somewhere else and get some reporting experience. The Scripps-Howard tabloid Washington Daily News had the job; it hired Lewis and he quickly made a mark as a byline reporter. In 1953, when he began looking into the records of Government employees who had been fired as security risks, he came across the unpublicized case of Abraham Chasanow, suspended by the Navy Department (TIME, May 10, 1954). Reporter Lewis wrote a five-part series on Chasanow...
...taxes next year by $20 a person. The Democrats, led by Speaker Sam Rayburn, tacked" their tax reduction (estimated cost: $2.1 billion) on to a bill to extend the badly needed revenues (estimated at $2.8 billion) from excises and the 52% corporation-tax rate. Explained New York Timesman Arthur Krock: "Instead of bringing up the $20-per-head handout bill separately on its own merits, the Rayburn plan is to attach it to the revenue maintenance measure so that by a presidential veto the $2.8 billion would be lost to the Treasury. In other words the Democratic fee for preserving...
...noisy Democratic Representative Chet Holifield shot from the lip. "Mr. Chairman," said Holifield, "no matter how deep you bury it, it is still going to smell bad." Holifield may have been right, although not in the way he meant. Commented the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock: "The most unattractive exhibition of partisan politics the capital has witnessed for years is the row over the Dixon-Yates contract . . . these Democrats themselves have made the controversy bitter. And they have augmented its heat and scope by forcing into the area of partisan politics what should be a sober, nonpolitical...
...YORK TIMES PUNDIT ARTHUR KROCK...
...fleeting friendliness reminded New York Timesman Arthur Krock of II Samuel 20:9-10, describing the meeting of Joab and Amasa at the great stone of Gibeon: "And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he [Joab] smote him therewith in the fifth...