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Wyoming's slender, shaggy-browed Joseph C. O'Mahoney stood up on the Senate floor last week and exclaimed: "It is clear to me that someone has to straighten it out . . . [with] plain language." The "it" was the confusion over prices caused by the U.S. Supreme Court's outlawing of the cement industry's basing point system (TIME...
...Mahoney's method of setting things straight was quite senatorial. He introduced a bill. The bill would permit manufacturers to absorb freight charges and quote delivered prices, provided they were "acting independently," i.e., without collusion. The Senate, which has been trying to draft a bill for months to end the confusion, gave a sigh of relief at these plain words. It quickly passed the bill...
...Senators on the committee, these impassioned words seemed scarcely to fit the case. Snapped Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney: "A completely doctrinaire and unrealistic attitude ... It is not a question of whether an individual may attend a school or speak freely. The issue is whether AEC shall use public funds to educate persons who are members of an organization pledged to overthrow our government...
...procedure. Said Lilienthal, completing his change of front: "I have no question at all that we should not provide public funds for anyone who advocates the overthrow of this government by force or violence . . . whether [the work] is secret or non-secret." Just to make doubly sure, O'Mahoney announced he would "write into law a provision of such clarity" that Lilienthal would have no other choice...
Senator Homer Ferguson (R.Mich.) added the hearing was "an investigation of Dr. Edelman." Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D.Wy.) said. "You were merely asked here because your name had been mentioned...