Word: seaway
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Senate Republican Conference Chairman Eugene Millikin and House Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Richard Simpson. Leader of the unsuccessful fight against the St. Lawrence Seaway was Maryland's Republican Senator John Marshall Butler, and one of his most active allies was Senate Assistant Majority Leader Leverett Saltonstall, an Eisenhower Republican. North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton Young heads the effort to scuttle the Eisenhower farm program. Such Republicans as Nevada's Senator George Malone and North Dakota's Senator William Langer vote against the Administration as a matter of course. The President was able to muster only...
...cuss Eisenhower, and people get sore. You can say the Administration stinks, and they cheer." The Kansan voted only about 35% pro-Eisenhower last year, and his showing this year will be about the same. For a while, he planned to vote for the St. Lawrence Seaway. Said he: "It won't make five votes difference in my district whether I vote for or against it, so I'll probably vote for it. That way people can't accuse me of not being loyal to my party." But he must have recounted and found a ten vote...
Where previous Congresses for 40 years have merely wetted a toe and walked away, the House of Representatives last week took a momentous plunge: it approved the St. Lawrence Seaway project...
Ever since he became a member of the old Rivers & Harbors Committee in 1933, Michigan's Congressman George Anthony Dondero has championed the seaway. As Public Works Committee chairman, he steered the bill through the House this year despite continued opposition from Atlantic and Gulf ports and from the railroad interests. Two recent developments finally dispelled congressional timidity: 1) the steel industry's ever-growing dependence on Labrador ore, which could be cut off by enemy submarines as long as it must be shipped through East Coast ports, and 2) Canada's decision to build the seaway...
This week President Eisenhower is expected to sign the bill into law and start setting up the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. to handle negotiations with Canada and supervise construction. Six years from now, if all goes well, ocean freighters will be churning upstream from Montreal...