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Knowland was a britches-buster in other ways to the august U.S. Senate. In a forum where youngsters are supposed to be seen but not heard, Knowland set out by tackling-and tumbling-none other than Mr. Republican, Ohio's Bob Taft, on an issue of budget policy. In an institution where seniority is the road to prominence, Knowland leaped to the forefront before his first full term was half over. He became the Senate's leading Republican spokesman on the most acrimonious issue of the day: U.S. policy toward Asia. How it happened is typical of Bill...
...Unbreakable. Selected to lead the California delegation to the Republican National Convention, Knowland was avidly wooed by presidential hopefuls. From the Eisenhower camp came strong hints that the vice-presidential nomination could be his. From the Taft forces (but not from Taft himself) came a direct promise that support for the Ohioan would give Knowland second place on the national ticket. But Knowland and his delegation were pledged to back Earl Warren for President-and Bill Knowland has never broken his word. At Chicago, disturbed by reports that his Senate Colleague Richard Nixon was trying to get the California delegation...
Ever since the election, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had looked forward to smooth plowing for his soil-bank program. He needed to rally the corn farmers to the program with more enthusiasm. And to do this, he was prepared to allocate considerably more acreage to the cornmen-though with a lower support price ($1.31 v. $1.36 a bu.)-if only the farmers would renounce the surplus-building system of the old acreage-allotment plan. Last week corn farmers put Benson's new plan to a vote. Result: in the 894 commercial corn counties in the U.S., cornmen stubbornly...
After taking a hard look at the Taft-Hartley Act, the National Labor Relations Board decided three years ago that it had a double-barreled weapon for blasting Communists out of the labor movement. Barrel No. i: The act requires all union leaders to file non-Communist affidavits before a union may qualify for the board's vital services, of which an important one is certification of the union as a col lective bargaining agent. Barrel No. 2: it seemed logical to the board that, in cases where unions persisted in re-electing officers indicted or convicted for falsifying...
Judge Kingsley A. Taft of the Ohio Supreme Court, presided at the trial, assisted by Judges Jose deVaron '38 and John T. Noonan '19. The teams are judged on debating ability and not on the legal merits of the case...