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Back from an overseas vacation, Washington's gregarious Democratic Senator Warren G. Magnuson brought tidings to a private Seattle luncheon of a droll exchange between himself and Pope Pius XII. At the end of an audience with His Holiness, the Senator, having been tagged as a Lutheran, was about to leave. He clutched a box containing a rosary, a souvenir of his visit. The Pope asked him to tarry a moment and asked: "Did you look at what is in the box?" Magnuson allowed that he had peeked. Quipped the most urbane of modern pontiffs: "Sometimes when I give...
Seeing such liberal stalwarts as Senators Kennedy, Kefauver, O'Mahoney and Magnuson behind the Southern efforts to amend the bill to death certainly must discourage those Americans who had always counted them the champions of "the little man." How hollow the Democratic claim to be "the party of the people" sounds...
...Democrats and twelve Republicans, voting against were 33 Republicans and nine Democrats. To Knowland's chagrin, Majority Leader Johnson had scooped up such Democratic moderates as Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Ohio's Frank Lausche, Rhode Island's John Pastore, Washington's "Scoop" Jackson and Warren Magnuson, such Republicans as Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, Indiana's Homer Capehart, and West Virginia's Chappie Revercomb...
...Oregon's Wayne Morse announced his misgivings about upsetting usual Senate procedure. The other four Democrats: Washington's Warren Magnuson, Montana's James Murray, Montana's Mike Mansfield, and Massachusetts' John Kennedy...
...CHINA AIR ROUTES for U.S. airlines will be urged by Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, Senate Commerce Committee chairman, who proposes that resumption of U.S. passenger and mail flights would be good first step toward opening trade with Chinese Communists. Pan American World Airways and Northwest Airlines hold certificates to fly to China, but cannot do so until State Department drops travel...