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...this point was Indiana's Senator Capehart, who fought bitterly with Fulbright during the hearings. Filing a minority report along with three other Republican Senators (Ohio's Bricker, Utah's Bennett and Maryland's Beall), Capehart accused the Democrats of bringing forth a gloom-and-doom report, aimed at damaging the Republican Administration. The real reasons for the rise in stock prices, wrote Capehart, were not "iniquitous speculation," but the higher rates of production, and the stability that the Eisenhower Administration has brought about...
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...investigation of the stock market, which had some suspiciously political overtones from the start, last week turned into an out-and-out dogfight between Democrats and Republicans. G.O.P. Chairman Leonard Hall charged that Committee Member Paul Douglas of Illinois was "one of the original instigators of the gloom-and-doom attack" during the last congressional campaign, and that one of the star witnesses, Harvard's Professor John K. Galbraith, was an "oldtime New Dealing, A.D.A.-type of anti-Jeffersonian radical [who] flirted around with the customary pink fronts," and "almost wrecked" World War II's Office of Price...
Galbraith, an economic aide to Stevenson during the 1952 election campaign, was accused Monday by Capehart of being a "gloom and doom adviser" to the Presidential nominee. Capehart is the ranking Republican member of the Senate Banking Committee investigating the 18-month boom in the stock market...
Earlier in the meeting Capehart had read from the booklet and then shifted his attack to accuse Galbraith of being a "gloom and doom adviser to Adlai Stevenson...