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...federal bench, he had been put in charge of the calendar for May (a rotating position) and had assigned himself to the Hiss trial. He had been recommended for a judgeship by Tammany Hall and by Bronx Boss Ed Flynn; nominated by Harry Truman, and confirmed by the 81st Congress-though Kaufman was refused endorsement by the Federal Bar Association of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. His appointment had been supported by one group-the New York County Lawyers' Association; the chairman of the judiciary...
...81st Congress was six months old. No one had yet put his brand marks on it, though several had tried. In the first glow of the session it was hopefully hailed as a Fair Deal Congress, but that was obviously a misnomer. Then when Republicans and Southern Democrats ganged up to kill Harry Truman's civil rights program, an angry C.I.O. official said that Congress was run by the "Dixiegop." That was also too pat. It hardly fitted last week's news, in which the Fair Deal won a big victory in one house and lost...
...fact was that, except for foreign policy, the 81st Congress was proving to be one of the most unmanaged & unmanageable Congesses in recent times. No one man, no one group ran the show-neither the Fair Dealers, the Southern diehards, Taft's moderate Republicans, nor Kenneth Wherry's Midwestern tories, nor any permanent coalition of them...
...81st in action looked like a chart of atoms at work; particles were constantly breaking off from one nucleus to join another. Judging by the first six months, the 81st was proving footloose and independent-minded. The independence made it irritatingly slow at times; it also made for the kind of middle-of-the-road Congress which would never fully satisfy the Truman Fair Dealers, or satisfy the conservatives either, but would nevertheless leave behind it some solid achievements...
Pray for Grace. Both the CCC and most farmers had been counting on Congress to authorize emergency storage. But it appeared that the 81st Congress, like its predecessor, would not do anything in time to be of much help. The House had passed a conference bill which would let the CCC build more storage facilities, but last week the Senate turned it down, ostensibly on a technicality. (Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas charged it was torpedoed by private grain storage interests...