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...serve their country now have fewer rights than men who betray it." Another orator made the Vigilant Women fairly squeal with delight when he gave his reasons for changing the U.S. Constitution, beginning with: "This is the 74th birthday of General Douglas MacArthur." The speaker was Clarence Manion, ex-dean of the University of Notre Dame's law school, now chairman of President Eisenhower's Commission on Intergovernmental (federal-state) Relations, and a man for whom the Administration has fully mastered its enthusiasm...
...vast and vital field of federal-state relationships would challenge a dozen "Pat" Manions-but has not been given the full-time attention of even one. Manion has been busy with other things; his proud boast is that he has spoken for the Bricker amendment in all the 48 states. Meanwhile, his commission has languished. Of 78 federal grant-in-aid programs that Manion himself believes should be studied, work has started on only three. With the commission's report due March i, an extension of time must be requested...
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Chairman: Clarence E. Manion, 57, ex-dean of Notre Dame University's law school. The 25 members include five Senators, five Representatives, four state governors. At the White House last week, President Eisenhower witnessed the commission's swearing-in. Its assignment, according to the President: to look for methods of eliminating "frictions, duplications and waste from federal-state relations." No. i problem: conflict and overlapping in federal and state taxation...
...exception. The orators slew Senator McCarthy dozens of times; they jabbed at the Atom, slashed at the Soviet, spoke well of freedom-academic and otherwise. But at Pennsylvania State College, one man took on a dragon that seemed to him more dangerous than all the rest. Said Clarence Manion, lawyer and former dean of Notre Dame's College...
Died. Dr. Robert James Manion, 61, onetime surgeon, leader of Canada's Conservative party (1938-40), head of Canadian air raid defense; in Ottawa...