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...measure remains on the House calendar and can be called up whenever its supporters desire. Vinson expected no action for at least three weeks, however, or until there is more prospect for a compromise...
When the bill was endangered by an anti-segregation amendment which threatened to drive off southern support, Rep. Vinson (D-Ga.) won a quick motion to suspend consideration. He said he was acting to save "the battered, almost defeated, bill...
Representative Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has predicted that the bill will be passed without any major change. Representative H. R. Gross (R-Ia.) said last week, though, that the plan "opens the door...
...West Virginia legislature; of cancer; in Bethesda. Md. Elected to the Senate when he was 29 as a New Deal Democrat, Holt waited six months until he reached the required age of 30 before taking his seat, quickly alienated his coal-miner supporters by filibustering to death the Guffey-Vinson coal bill, was characterized by the United Mine Workers as "the dirtiest traitor of all." Defeated in the 1940 primary, he retired temporarily from politics, turned Republican in 1950, got the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination but lost the election...
With his new pencil, Scripto President James Vinson Carmichael got the jump on the Parker Pen Co., which ballyhooed its own graphite pencil last month but will take "about 90 days" before beginning distribution...