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Senator Pat Harrison was vacationing in California, Senator Joe O'Mahoney was in Wyoming resting up for his Monopoly Investigation. So in Washington last week the committee charged with policing 1938's Senate campaigns was stripped down to dutiful little Senator Sheppard of Texas (chairman), urbane Senator White of Maine (the sole Republican), lumbering Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts. In an air-conditioned office at the Capitol, this trio scanned reports from ten field investigators, kept the press informed of its opinions on the political campaign...
...This is not a punitive investigation," declared Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, chairman of the joint Congressional-Executive Monopoly Investigation, last week. Whereupon the committee began planning its probing of the steel, rubber, cement and milk-marketing industries, and many a Big Businessman felt none too sure of the literalness of Chairman O'Mahoney's assertion. This week, something of a sedative for nervous executives was administered by the Brookings Institution in Washington, which published the fifth volume of its famed series of studies of the basic economic maladjustments in U. S. industry. The first four volumes...
While businessmen waited for the Committee's first move, probably into U. S. Steel in September, Chairman O'Mahoney tried to reassure them that, so far as he was concerned, the inquiry would be no witch hunt, no kangaroo court. Said he: "I think most people, regardless of their economic views, realize that we have gone into a new era and that we have to find some new rules. But I think they want to go about the job without resorting to punitive tactics. . . . It is a question whether the educated opinion of the American people can preserve...
...Chairman O'Mahoney's mind are such questions...
...bill to do precisely that is the joint pet project of Senators O'Mahoney and Borah. Regardless of what else may result from the inquiry, their bill's eventual passage by Congress seems sure. But, as astute Columnist Raymond Clapper last week observed: "His struggle will not be to get the measure through, but to prevent some of the extreme New Dealers from loading it with more executive discretionary power than he wishes to allow...