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...about $200 million out of the bill. Candidate Taft, admitting that his stand was "unwise politically," pleaded for Congress to go slow on public spending at a time when foreign aid and military commitments were making heavy demands on the Treasury and the nation's economy. One Democrat-Virginia's Harry Byrd-joined him, warned of deficits and of "an increase in taxes which will shake the private-enterprise system to its very foundations." Kansas' Republican Clyde Reed called the bill "an outrageous pork barrel," charged that most of the Senators had put projects into it regardless...
...Longest-sitting Democrat: Tennessee's McKellar (32 years). Alltime recordholder: Wyoming Republican Francis D. Warren, who served a total of 37 years between 1890 and his death...
Died. Arthur Ault, 75, portly, plain-spoken editor of the Lamar, Mo., Democrat; of a heart ailment; in Lamar. He fattened his national reputation (TIME, July 8, 1946) with such unlarded local reporting as "George Phillips is back in the Barton County jail . . . drunk as a lord...
...South was still grumbling. Memphis' Boss Ed Crump snarled: "I'm for anybody except Harry Truman. Any good Democrat will get my vote." But he added that there was no truth in reports that Southern states would hold a rump convention. Even without the South, Harry Truman seemed to be in. National Chairman J. Howard McGrath announced that his rock-bottom figures showed the President with a minimum of 900 of a possible 1,234 votes on the first ballot...
...Senate Office Building gymnasium, Maine's 60-year-old Republican Owen Brewster and Louisiana's 56-year-old Democrat Allen Ellender struck a pose for a traditional springtime picture: statesmen keeping in trim for the cruel tussle with their responsibilities. Ellender, a statesman in the Huey Long tradition, recalled that he had posed for the same kind of picture another spring with Henry Agard Wallace, sighed wistfully: "I should have knocked Wallace's block off when I had the chance...