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...steamboat days, when a big one like the Sprague could push as many as 60 barges loaded down with 54,000 tons of coal. He becomes nostalgic recalling that stern-wheelers in the '70s made regular trips on the highways of water between Pittsburgh and Fort Benton, Mont. But he knows that diesels are here to stay, and doesn't let his nostalgia get teary-eyed. Nor does he equate the ' Monongahela and the Coal Queen with romance. But when a stranger looked at the Queen and asked, "Ain't it a miracle what some fools...
...dust storm. He had "no confidence" in the subcommittee, he said, but he added with wondrous logic that it ought to continue its work as a matter of principle. Then, as usual, he counterattacked: he challenged the Senate to order a similar investigation of his favorite enemy, Senator William Benton, the "odd little mental midget" from Connecticut, whose charges originally prompted the Senate to investigate McCarthy...
After demanding, among other things, an examination of Benton's income-tax returns, McCarthy hurried off to catch a plane. His tactics spared the Senate the embarrassment of a showdown on the issue; it unanimously (60 to 0) ordered the Gillette subcommittee to continue investigating McCarthy and referred the Benton case to the full committee. But McCarthy's enemies were delighted, nevertheless; they thought they had caught their man in a serious blunder. They figured it would be easier for the subcommittee to go ahead with a businesslike investigation of Republican McCarthy if it were also looking into...
...stage, "We Want Ike" and "Michigan for Eisenhower" signs were plastered all over the hall. One congressional district convention (the Jackson area) committed its two delegates to Ike. Another (Grand Rapids) pledged one of its two votes to him. A third (Pontiac) elected two known Eisenhower men. One district (Benton Harbor) passed a resolution endorsing Taft, but did not instruct its delegates...
...WILLIAM BENTON U.S. Senate Washington...