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...Karl Mundt at the Army-McCarthy hearings. Last week came a chairman with a different style. Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins, 67, began presiding over the special Senate committee on whether to recommend censure of Senator Joe McCarthy. He was quiet, polite, clearheaded-and very stubborn when pushed...
...from fraudulent misrepresentation by ambitious Democratic operators, but the people must know the truth about the public business. The Republican record of progressive, humanitarian achievement for the people of this state is long and proud, and shines all the more brightly in comparison to the shoddy Democratic period of stubborn, stupid and shortsighted political obstruction . . . [The Democrats are] bankrupt of political conscience and any sense of responsibility to the people . . . Never trust your city, your state or your nation to destructive demagogues, who try to torpedo sound programs and have nothing themselves to offer. Don't ever let them...
...account of the deadlock in Iran and feeling pleased that he was not mixed up in it, when Secretary Dulles called him on the phone from Washington. Would Hoover go to Iran, as a State Department special adviser, and see if he could bring the obdurate British and the stubborn Iranians together? Hoover would. He now assesses the job (with shrewd help from Ambassador Loy Henderson in Teheran) as 10% engineering, 15% negotiation, 75% ministering to emotional fevers. Old hands at the State Department appraise it as the finest one-man job since Dulles negotiated the Japanese peace treaty...
...Kremlin was getting increasingly concerned by the stubborn survival of that old "capitalistic superstition," Christianity, inside the Soviet Union. The trade-union paper Trud sent out appeals to all "local intelligentsia" to get out and sell the true faith, atheism. Doctors should propagandize their patients, veterinarians should lecture farm workers, added Radio Moscow...
...that the Milwaukee Braves and the Baltimore Orioles have taught the big leagues that shifting a franchise can spruce up a team, most baseball men agree that the Athletics could do worse than make the sleeper jump to Kansas City. But Roy Mack is a stubborn loyalist. When the Athletics' board of directors meets this week to consider Johnson's offer, Roy will be on hand with some last-minute support from a syndicate of Philadelphia businessmen. If Co-Owners Connie, Roy and Earle agree to sell their stock, Harry Sylk, president of Philadelphia...