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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anathemas. No one seemed to fill the bill exactly. Most of the top-ranking Eastern Democrats who had proved their vote-getting ability at the polls were Roman Catholics (which would make them anathema to the Democratic South): House Minority Leader John McCormack, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon, Rhode Island's fireball Freshman Senator J. Howard McGrath...
...climax of this sweetness-&-light campaign conies when "Father Palmiro" and his Communist Curates vote for the reaffirmation of the Lateran Pact (TIME, April 7), thus depriving the Christian Democrats of their most effective antiCommunist weapon-the charge that the Communists fight Christianity. Says a Communist observer: "You might say that Togliatti decided for the moment to dispense with the crude sickle in favor of the more delicate rapier. And instead of the hammer, we find Terracini's parliamentary gavel more effective...
WASHINGTON, May 2--Mustering enough votes to override a Presidential vote, the Senate today slapped a provision into its General Labor Bill forbidding union enercion of workers...
...amendment, sponsored by both Democrats and Republicans, was adopted by a roll-call vote of 60 to 28. This gave supporters one vote more than the two thirds majority the lineup remains the same on any vote test...
William L. Hungate 2L, who won the finance committee chairmanship by an 87 vote majority, was the only man not nominated by any caucus to win a post...