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...small, middle aged man from Allston, Raymond S. McFarland, was last night booked at Cambridge Police Headquarters on suspicion of stealing money from pocketbooks and coats in Emerson Hall...
Said Senator Ernest McFarland, who was presiding: "I think it is time...that we should take some action in an effort to put a little backbone into the members of the United Nations..." He asked for a roll-call vote "in order that all nations may know where we stand upon this question...
There were other voices urging similar courses. But essentially, it was a week for answering Herbert Hoover, Robert Taft and the other pleaders for a defensive foreign policythe policy of retreat to what Hoover called a Western Gibraltar. Arizona's apple-cheeked Ernest McFarland, rising to his first test as a majority leader of the new Senate, gave the debate free rein: "It is this clash of honest judgment and conviction . . . which results in sounder policy," he said...
Attack in the Senate. Even before the Senate met, Southern Democrats showed their muscle. In the caucus to elect a new majority leader, they rejected Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who was backed by outnumbered and plaintive Fair Dealers; the caucus elected Arizona's Ernest McFarland, an amiable, inconspicuous second-termer who consistently breaks with the Fair Deal on civil rights. For the job of whip the caucus picked Texas' Lyndon Johnson, chairman of the Armed Services Preparedness subcommittee, who defies the Administration just as regularly on civil rights, labor, tidelands...
...Before this noisy, argumentative, but earnest body, Harry Truman appeared this week. Two days before he faced them, he cautiously met with a delegation of leaders to brief them on his State of the Union speech. Despite the heavy weather rolling plainly over the horizon, Leader McFarland came away from the conference with a hopeful statement: "On both sides of the aisle, members of Congress are working for the nation as a whole...