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...chance for congressional approval of a 1941 Canadian-American agreement for joint construction of the project looks better than usual. But it is far from assured. The anti-seaway lobby is still deeply entrenched on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, Canadian patience is wearing thin. Said External Affairs Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson in Ottawa last week: "The Americans say we are dragging our feet in world affairs. The biggest and longest dragging of feet I have known in my entire career is that of the Americans on the St. Lawrence seaway...
Part of his successes were simply due to his capacity for decision and his instinct for sweeping aside triviality. He refused to stoop to the Washington weapons of gossip and rumor. But when Columnist Drew Pearson wrote that he was eavesdropping on Navy Secretary James Forrestal with a special electronic device, he angrily threatened to sue-not Pearson, but each of his 500 newspapers-and forced Pearson to print a retraction which Wilson wrote himself...
Professor N. H. Pearson of Yale will speak on "Billy Budd: The King's Yarn" in this afternoon's session...
...Pearson picked up the story on a swing through the West. After talking to public officials and newsmen, he decided that Howser's reputation was such that he could take a chance and make his broadcast...
...Pearson countered with four California Congressmen, who said that Howser's reputation had been poor in 1948. Pearson's most telling evidence: a deposition from the witness who said he had carried the bribe from a gambler direct to Howser. The jury's unanimous verdict: Howser had not been libeled. Pearson was the winner in his ninth libel suit...