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...testimony, McCarthy hopped into a plane and headed for Santa Fe to address a gathering of 17 Republican state chairmen from the Rocky Mountain and Midwestern states. This also got him out of town as a Rules subcommittee opened hearings on the resolution of Connecticut's Senator William Benton demanding his expulsion from the Senate...
...African Affairs, Henderson watched Iran, with U.N. and U.S. help, weather the crisis in 1946, when the Red Army finally got out of the northern part of the country. ¶ To replace Henderson in India, President Harry Truman nominated Chester Bowles, ex-partner in the advertising firm of Benton & Bowles, wartime OPA administrator, ex-Governor of Connecticut. Left-wing Democrats have long argued that U.S.-Indian relations suffer because the U.S. does not show India its liberal face. If there is any merit in this argument, Liberal Bowles should be able to improve matters. The chief obstacle to U.S.-Indian...
Well Done. In Benton, Ill., Clem Cable tried to get the bees out of his eaves, lit some rags to make a smudge, burned his house to the ground...
...William Benton's earnest demand that Joe McCarthy be expelled forthwith from the Senate (TIME, Aug. 13) had little effect last week on Joe. All he was going to do about that, Joe cracked, was what "you would do if picking geese were yapping at your heels." Joe went right on throwing rocks at the State Department...
...involved in another's campaign shenanigans should be made just as liable. The subcommittee's report was unanimous, signed not only by three Democrats, but by two Republicans, Maine's doughty Margaret Chase Smith and New Jersey's Robert Hendrickson. This week, Connecticut Democrat Bill Benton, taking his cue from the report, formally demanded McCarthy's resignation or expulsion from the U.S. Senate...