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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...
...They can . . . give away the offshore oil, give away Hell's Canyon dam and botch up the St. Lawrence Seaway and pretend like they'd done something great." For the matter of Communists in Government, the soft spot in the Democratic hide this election year, Harry Truman threw his fiercest strokes. By giving the impression that the list of 2,200 discharged security risks included a lot of Communists, Truman charged, "they undertook to perpetrate one of the biggest hoaxes ever attempted in American history . . . This is the Republican Administration I am talking about-not irresponsible members...
...House Public Works Committee okayed by a whopping 23-to-6 vote the long-fought St. Lawrence Seaway bill (already passed by the Senate...