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...amendment--pushed through by that old crusader Karl Mundt--requires that a recipient of Federal grants or loans under the act sign a loyalty oath, stating "that he does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods...
...MUNDT: It is a priceless pleasure to work in the committee room with the distinguished senior Senator from Georgia, who has a vast knowledge of agricultural problems, and who applies himself to their solution without partisanship...
South Dakota's Karl Mundt, who has long since jumped the Eisenhower team on farm policy, began by urging a last-ditch plea for the President to sign. Nebraska's Carl Curtis backed him up, and North Dakota's Milton Young remarked tartly that President Eisenhower had certainly not been talking about farm-prop cuts during the 1956 campaign. Quite the contrary, claimed Young, and added portentously: "Explain that to your farmers." Colorado's Gordon Allott suggested that the caucus might take advantage of the recession by casting the farm freeze as one of the antirecession...
Traps and trap setters were not even camouflaged. For four weeks three of the committee's Republicans-Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nebraska's Carl Curtis and South Dakota's Karl Mundt had been leading the committee thorough the bitter history of the U.A.W.'s, fruitless four-year, $10 million strike against Wisconsin's Kohler Co. (TIME, March 17), second largest U.S. plumbing-fixture manufacturer (No. 1; American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. , The three Republicans had long since decided the U.A.W. was at fault to their surprise. Walter Reuther was willing to agree halfway. Mass...
...until Arthur's widow, Louise Grieb Eisenhower, completed funeral plans before deciding what to do. Next morning the President postponed a scheduled press conference and a formal dinner for Chief Justice Earl Warren. But he went ahead with a perfunctory ceremony observing the tenth anniversary of the Smith-Mundt Act permanently establishing the Voice of America. Unintended high point: when South Dakota's irrepressible Senator Karl Mundt produced a ten-year-old picture of General Eisenhower plumping for the bill, burbled, "You haven't changed a bit, Mr. President." Squinting hard at the photo, the President muttered...