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Wanting to make sure that the American public appreciates not only the scenic value of American cows but their produce as well, the dairy interests pushed through an amendment to the Defense Production Act drastically restricting imports of cheese, butter, and other fats. This Anderson-Thye amendment has made a mockery of United States leadership in the movement toward free world trade, a State Department crusade since...
...Anderson-Thye amendment has all but torn this web apart, leaving other members of GATT with the feeling that U.S. trade policy is insincere and undependable. Already three countries, Denmark, Holland, and Canada have accused the United States at the recent GATT conference in Geneva of "impairing and nullifying" the agreement, and all that Undersecretary of State Willard Thorpe could do at the time was admit...
...dairy interests' victory has also left its mark on the ECA. A good example is Belgium, where cheese exports to America were a main factor in the fight for self-sufficiency. The Belgian ECA program received a serious setback when the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under the Anderson-Thye amendment, had to cut cheese imports forty percent last August...
...inherit the governor's chair is C. Elmer Anderson, 39, the lieutenant governor, a moonfaced, mediocre politician from Brainerd (pop. 12,558). The Stassen forces thought so little of Elmer that back in 1942, when Governor Stassen was about to go in the Navy, they put up Ed Thye against Anderson, so that Thye would be governor when Stassen left. Now Thye is a U.S. Senator and up for re-election next year. He and Anderson would be embarrassing teammates on a ticket...
...progressives in the Senate, and found that they agreed with her. She drafted what she called a "Declaration of Conscience," and got them to sign it with her-New Hampshire's Tobey, Vermont's Aiken, Oregon's Morse, New York's Ives, Minnesota's Thye, New Jersey's Hendrickson. Thus armed she took the floor to make her case...