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Confused Dissenter. Although the Reece Report fills 416 pages, it lacks the endorsement of a committee majority. It was issued over the signatures of Reece and the committee's other two Republicans, Michigan's Jesse Wolcott and Massachusetts' Angier Goodwin. A note added that Goodwin's "additional views" had not been received in time for printing. These turned out to be a sharp dissent from two chief hypotheses in the report: that the foundations have fostered socialism and internationalism. Goodwin, who has been defeated for reelection, explained that he voted with Reece at one point because...
...President's most thumping defeat in the House came on his public-housing request, but the Speaker salvaged enough to deliver a face-saver for the Administration. As Charlie Halleck explained the trouble, he could not ask Michigan's Jesse Wolcott, the committee chairman involved, to sponsor a public-housing bill, because "Jesse spent years barnstorming around the country denouncing public housing. So did I, for that matter." When the bill came back from the Senate for the settling of differences between the two Houses, Speaker Martin moved in with a compromise formula. It was accepted and last...
...distinguished group of citizens appointed by Collier's Magazine in 1946 to make that magazine's award for distinguished congressional service included my name as one of 14 House members from which the final selection of Congressman Jesse Wolcott was made...
Freshman Heavies: Carlo Zezza, Stroke; John Lapsley, 7; Ed McCagg (captain), 6; Stafford Morss, 5; Carter Harrison, 4; Art Hodges, 3; Fritz Schwarz, 2; Sam Wolcott, Bow; Bob McLaughlin...
Without a real overhaul, Sherlock Holmes will please only that elfin six-year-old who accompanies Wolcott Gibbs when he lightly pans a play. Simply the usual "polishing and tightening" which a Boston tryout promiscs will not prevent a waste of considerable talent, talent scarcely evident in the ragged performance on Monday night. With Basil Rathbone cast in his famous role, a script by Ouida Rathbone based faithfully though eclectically on five of Conan Doyle's best stories, and the rather curious but impressive attraction of Jarmila Novotna in the cast, it is hard to believe that the producers...