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...epidemic. Ginger and her mother open a genteel boardinghouse. The scene is Philadelphia, where the 3rd U.S. Congress is in session. Who should turn up as the young widow's star boarders but Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and Congressman James Madison (Burgess Meredith)? Of course, both celebrated statesmen fall promptly and hard for their pretty landlady...
Letters of congratulation from prominent world statesmen poured in as the group got underway. Wrote Senator Warren R. Austin, D.S. Delegate to the U. N. Security Council and Chairman of the American delegation to the U. N. General Assembly, wrote. "May I extend every best wish for a vigorous and effective organization in our guest cause...
There was Harold Knutson of Minnesota, due to be chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, which handles all tax and tariff legislation. Before Pearl Harbor, Knutson opposed nearly every defense measure, once proclaimed: "Hitler is displaying a forbearance that might be emulated by statesmen of other countries...
...practiced glibness makes even Mr. White a little uneasy. He concedes that his shimmering blueprint "will be too purely theoretical for the practicing statesman, who is faced with the grim job of operating with equipment at hand. . . ." Since practicing statesmen can do little else, this admission is perhaps fatal...
...Truman nomination exhibits, even from McKellar's partisan point of view, a case of political myopia. By attempting to institute the spoils system in atomic control, the former Senate President Pro Tem is dividing the few remaining Democrats, and rapidly convincing a worldful of people that American statesmen are still juggling the A-bomb in a Congressional circus...