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...been all week. The fever of killing had subsided. Members' shoes were full of feet; all they wanted was to go home. Throughout the week the slickly oiled Republocratic machine, working efficiently under the Republican strategy triumvirate of Leader Joseph Martin and Michigan's Mapes and Wolcott, had guillotined Administration spending bills while Congressional wives knitted excitedly in the galleries...
Heartsick Leader Rayburn let antique Adolph Sabath bring up the Housing bill. And again the knife fell, as Republicans Mapes and Wolcott brought figures to show that Housing under this bill would cost taxpayers not $800,000,000 but $4,380,000,000 in the next 60 years. Showman Martin of Massachusetts stepped aside to let a freshman Democrat, handsome young (31) Albert Arnold Gore of Carthage, Tenn. deliver the coup de grace. Gore, who got his law degree from the Nashville Y.M.C.A., roared in his maiden House speech...
...House of Representatives last week, New York's James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (Rep.), a natty dresser, defined the difference between an under and an assistant secretary of the Cabinet. Said he: the former may wear spats...
...entirely friendly" spirit, New York's James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., only Congressman who has been a Senator (1915-27), advanced himself last week as a rival to Massachusetts' Joe Martin as a candidate for Minority Leader of the House. Because, said he, "I feel that the course to be followed by the Republican minority . . . during the next two years is of vital importance." Western Congressmen think neither he nor Joe Martin deserves the Leadership, since the main Republican gains of the last election were made in other States (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Michigan). Their candidate: Carl Mapes of Michigan...
Pennsylvania Railroad Co., which gets fat freight income from coal, asserted that State industries might be robbed of much-needed revenue. Steelman Wolcott replied that he bought only 55,000 tons of Pennsylvania coal a year, anyway (plus 20,000 tons from West Virginia), would continue doing so-unless continued losses forced him to close the plant. Coatesville townsfolk, about 90% of whom depend on Lukens for a living, backed his plea and last week Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission decided Lukens could buy its gas direct from Columbia's subsidiary. Henceforth, instead of the 20,000 tons...