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UNDER the U.S. Constitution, the President appoints Government officials "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate " In the case of Cabinet members, the Senate has almost always confirmed nominations. It may yet remain for Lewis L. Strauss, up for Secretary of Commerce, to be the first Cabinet nominee turned down for reasons of personality alone. In a long career of public service, Strauss has distinguished himself. But he has a thorny, give-and-ask-no-quarter personality; he also has an implacable opponent of great talent and resolve. The result is Washington's highest drama - played...
...several Depression-era state and federal jobs, dealing mostly with unemployment and relief in New Mexico, in 1940 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of three terms. He made a House name for himself in hard-digging committee investigations, e.g., of Race-Baiter Gerald L. K. Smith, of food-rationing abuses during World War II. In 1945 President Harry Truman, a poker companion of Anderson's, named him Secretary of Agriculture, succeeding Henry A. Wallace. Serving at that post until 1948, Anderson was a staunch advocate of flexible farm supports, has stuck steadfastly...
Keeping Black out of the paper was not easy. He is a consistent newsmaker, often gets into other papers. Last month, carrying a United Press International dispatch from Raleigh that mentioned Black five times, Independent Publisher James L. Moore made five pinpoint deletions. Fortnight ago, when the other representative from Kannapolis, Dwight Quinn-supply superintendent for Cannon's mills -killed a Black-introduced bill, the Independent story named the executioner but not the victim...
William W. Kates '59, of Eliot House and Amherst, Stephen I. Klass '59, of Kirkland House and Sierra Vista, Ariz., Arthur L. Kopit '59, of Dunster House and Lawrence, N.Y., Bernard R. Kripke '59, of Eliot House and Scarsdale, N.Y., Nathaniel H. Leff '59, of Dunster House and Brookline, Stephen A. Lerner '59, of Lowell House and Chicago, III., Robert W. LeVine '59, of Winthrop House and Newton Center, Robert T. Lewit '59, of Adams House and Orange, N.J., Robert W. McCarley '59, of Kirkland House and Mayfield, Ky., Gerald L. Mackler '59, of Lowell House and West Hartford...
...Dudley House and Roxbury, David J. Steinberg '59, of Leverett House and New York City, Robert B. Strassler '59, of Kirkland House and Westport, Ct., Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. '59, of Winthrop House and Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Theodore I. Wallace Jr. '59, of Dunster House and Elmhurst, III., John L. Warner '59, of Dudley House and Detroit, Mich., Andrew L. Warshaw '59, of Adams House and Jamaica, N.Y., Gordon H. Williams '59, of Kirkland House and Kansas City, Kan., Robert I. Willman '59, of Lowell House and Grand Island, Neb., and Theodore S. Zimmerman '59, of Leverett House and Clayton...