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...speaks to the floor of the Senate and not to the press gallery, and he willingly lets other Senators take the acclaim for his successes. He is reluctant to give advice to other Senators, seldom volunteers it, invariably-when pressed for it-prefaces the advice with a kind, nonpartisan "Well, coming from your state, I'd suggest you do . . ." Rarely has Russell been known to solicit a vote on any other than the merits of the case, and rarely does he present more than the basic argument. He assumes that the Senators, however young, however green, are intelligent enough...
Undented Defense. Democrats Lausche and Cannon put little or no blame for the current surge of price-spiraling on Dwight Eisenhower & Co. In the same nonpartisan spirit, a congressional subcommittee chaired by Arkansas' Congressman Wilbur D. Mills unanimously concluded last week that the Administration had done right in backing up the Federal Reserve Board's inflation-fighting tight-money policy of bridling bank credit. Reported the committee, after interviewing three dozen experts: tight money pinches, but it restrains inflation-and inflation pinches harder and more unjustly...
President Eisenhower's proposal last winter for a nonpartisan monetary commission to study the nation's financial system set Congress forthwith to courting reasons why a congressional committee could do the job and do it better. But even on that score a hitch arose; nobody in Congress could decide which committee qualified...
...heard newspapers cursed in the cloakroom and fought on the floor." He began to wonder if the "small but vocal group attacking newspapers" reflected widespread dissatisfaction with the press among state representatives and senators. Publisher Simon mailed out questionnaires to legislators of the 48 states. The nonpartisan survey, whose results were published this week in the March issue of Quill magazine, gave politicians a rare opportunity to talk back to the press...
...Instead of a congressional hearing, the advisory panel to the Senate Banking Committee wants an independent, completely nonpartisan National Monetary Commission of twelve to 17 members. About one-third of them would be drawn from Congress, and the rest chosen by the President from all walks of business and finance. Though FRB is not actively pushing for such a study, it would gladly go along with the idea...