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...state's Senators are also split. Price Daniels, the ex-attorney general who was elected in 1952, is a strong Shivers man, while Lyndon Johnson is a fence straddler who stayed neutral until just before election day, when he gave a small speech in support of Stevenson. In an unprecedented move aimed at 1954, Johnson stumped the state after Congress adjourned last fall, and he seems to have the election in the bag. Orthodox Democrats are hoping that Shivers will contest Johnson in the primary, for he will almost surely lose. It is even doubtful whether Shivers could...
...Little Too Far." In their effort to line up a two-thirds majority for the treaty, Connally and Michigan's ranking Republican Arthur Vandenberg might have preferred a little less candor from the Secretary of State. Many a Senate fence-straddler, like Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, was willing to buy the pact if he could dodge paying the arms bill later. Pussyfooting Tom Connally thought Acheson went "a little too far," in his answer; a Senator's only voting guide was his "conviction and conscience." Vandenberg was afraid the Senate was getting its "eyes glued...
...critics say he is a confirmed fence-straddler who rides the donkey and the elephant at the same time, a phony liberal who proposes social reforms with one hand and fails to push them through with the other, a bullheaded, plodding mediocrity who never says or does anything out of the ordinary...
...columns factual and unbiased, Publisher Knight describes himself as "a passionate believer in personal journalism," lives up to it by writing a signed "Editor's Notebook" on his editorial pages. His sentences are short and punchy. His aim: to be independent but not neutral-"not to be a straddler of issues, a do-nothing...
Furthermore, he lacks any consistent philosophy. Army men like him because he is malleable. They have a saying: "Konoye is not a man, but a mirror." Politicians say he has a "chivalrous" mind, which merely means he is a polite straddler. He was once a melancholy Marxist, and amused himself by translating Oscar Wilde. Five years ago it was said that he was a Liberal because he sent his golf-playing son Fumitaka ("Butch") to Princeton. But two years ago he talked fascist: said he wanted to see Chiang Kai-shek's head roll in a basket...