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...must continue as long as aggressive international Communism threatens us. In the nature of things this far-flung effort ... is occasionally wasteful and inefficient. Chances must be taken, and in many cases it will be some years before we can see how successful the gamble may have been." Then Taftman Hollister added a touch that was the most meaningful of all. "I have been conducting," he told the President, "what I think is the most interesting work in the Government...
...George Humphrey, a Taftman before 1952, had a hard time swallowing what the President came to call Modern Republicanism. He could see the point of defense costs as long as they dealt with essential hardware, but he had little sympathy with foreign economic aid, and even less for the "welfare state" programs that wedged their way into the 1958 budget. His doubts broke through, almost by accident, when he made his famed remark last January that continued big budgets would bring on a hair-curling depression. Humphrey's prediction strongly influenced his business friends and encouraged a boom...
...hopes for a rising tide of modern Republicanism came a dash of bad tidings last week from a Down East stalwart. The tidebreaker: Frederick George Payne, 56, former (1949-53) Maine governor and 1952 Ike-backer who edged out Taftman Owen Brewster in the 1952 primaries and is now Maine's junior Senator. The tidings: hardworking, quietly effective Frederick Payne will not seek re-election in 1958. Among the reasons for the change in Payne: his health (he has a chronic but not disabling heart disorder), his family (Mrs. Payne doesn't like Washington), his pocketbook...
...White House was at pains to explain that, with Taftman Hollister in charge, the program had a better chance of overcoming growing congressional resistance to foreign spending. The Taft family's Cincinnati Times-Star glowed with pride, certain that to Hollister, "thrift is more than a word." But newsmen had trouble getting an answer to their key question: Is Hollister for or against foreign...
...Ferguson was a Taftman at Chicago, but later, as Republican Policy Committee chairman, he became a loyal Eisenhower Administration man in the Senate, leading the fight for Ike's military budget. White-thatched Homer Ferguson, 66, is noted for gentle friendliness, dogged fact-searching (during the Pearl Harbor probe, he grilled General Marshall for a week running) and as a worrier, particularly about things that offend his sense of rectitude, e.g., the congressional pork barrel. Twelve years a Senator, he was defeated last fall by Democrat Patrick McNamara. His legislative experience should stand Ambassador designate Ferguson in good stead...