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Meanwhile, legislative time was flying. By midweek, Majority Leader Bob Taft ordered daily sessions (instead of a session every other day). The Republican Policy Committee laid down an immediate schedule: after tidelands, economic controls, and then Hawaii statehood. (Still without a definite place on the schedule: revision of the Taft-Hartley law.) When appropriations bills reach the floor, the schedule may be disrupted, for they will get the right...
...referring to a "mess," was Stevenson just repeating the Journal's question or was he, as Republicans gleefully said, admitting that the Truman Administration was a mess of graft? When reporters put this to him at a midweek press conference, Stevenson at first seemed to adopt the second interpretation. Said he: "It's been proved, hasn't it? . . . Several people have been indicted." Then, backing off a bit, he added: "I would think that was probably true of any government, and more or less all of the time. What we want to do is reduce the number...
Under close examination, the reporting of the Stockholm papers proved to bear just about as much relation to reality as a Mickey Spillane novel. The Swedish Foreign Office at midweek denied that any Swedes had been manhandled. The city hall incident fell apart when Officer Hans Melin, a Swedish policeman assigned to Margaret's party during her visit, testified that the U.S. Secret Service men had not brandished a pistol and had not forbidden anyone to enter. Said Melin: "The American police officer was not armed on the occasion. I myself...
Nixon's mother was firm about church (three times on Sundays and once at midweek). Nixon played the piano for Sunday school, still plays occasionally to relax ("I'm'not as good as President Truman"). He worked his way through Whittier College (present enrollment: 1,200), mostly by helping out in the family store as cashier and delivery boy. Occasionally he helped his mother do the dishes. She recalls: "Richard always pulled the blinds down tight so that people wouldn't see him with his hands in a dishpan...
...birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, which is actually April 21 but was officially celebrated on June 5 this year will be celebrated on Thursday June n next year, except for customs and excise offices and home ports, which will do their celebrating on Saturday, June 27 to avoid a midweek work stoppage...