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...Time. But, reasoned G.O.P. strategists, why be blamed for killing off Acheson when a good many Democrats were working to the same end? Some lame-duck Democratic casualties had already made it plain to Harry Truman that Acheson had hurt their party badly. In the House there was a small rear-guard defense by a loyal handful ("He and his accomplishments will live in history long after the names of his detractors are forgotten," said Missouri's 34-year-old Congressman Richard Boiling, an ex-G.L), but in the Senate, not one Democrat rose last week to defend...
Onstage. In such aimless chantings Congress did not get much work done. Dixiecrats successfully carried off a filibuster which killed the Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills for this session. The bills had been at the top of Mr. Truman's legislative list for the lame-duck session...
...Unemployed. The President had also failed to hook a full-time civilian defense director, or someone to be Assistant Attorney General in charge of antitrust prosecutions. At the end of the lame-duck session of the 81st Congress he would have eleven Democratic ex-Senators and 47 ex-Congressmen to pick from. But what he really needed were some able men from industry, and they wouldn't come...
Drawing up such a compromise would take time, perhaps too much for a bill to be passed even by the House before Christmas. Even if the House did pass it, most legislators doubted that the Senate would during the lame-duck session...
Cheered by talk of an early end to the Korean war and fading chances for the excess profits tax in the lame-duck session of Congress (see above), the Dow-Jones industrials rose to 235.47 (up 4.8 points in a week), the highest since the autumn of 1930. The rails rose to 71.06, highest since 1931. The New York Herald Tribune's closely watched average of 100 stocks finally broke through its 1946 bull market high of 137.45, and reached 137.63, also the highest since...