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...Senate floor in January. New Hampshire's Tobey, Vermont's George Aiken, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley would be around for at least another six years. Their team had added a potent freshman in Pennsylvania's burly Jim Duff, and it had sent an ancient opponent, Missouri's Forrest Donnell, to the showers. In high Republican councils, Bob Taft's show-me internationalism was more than outbalanced by the sizable majorities of the two international-minded coastal governors, Tom Dewey and Earl Warren...
...Senate, the Republicans counted confidently on taking Democratic seats in Pennsylvania and California, and the Democrats did not seriously dispute them. If so, the Democrats stood to lose their majority whip, inconspicuous Francis Myers. His opponent, Pennsylvania's able, red-haired Governor Jim Duff, was popular, and Republicans had not lost an off-year election in the state since 1934. In California, Representative Richard Nixon, the man who did most (in the House Un-American Activities Committee) to drag the Alger Hiss case into the open, was conceded a big lead toward the Senate over Fair Dealing Representative Helen...
Pennsylvania's Governor James Duff had had enough of home-grown Communists: "Instead of putting these guys in jail for five years, they ought to be hanged...
...question on reporters' minds was McCarthyism. Both governors were bluntly critical; both thought an investigation of subversives in Government was needed, but not McCarthy's way. Said Duff: "His charges have not been sufficiently documented, in view of the seriousness of their character. I personally feel it is unwise to make random, blanket charges...
Republicans and Democrats alike, the governors were impressed. "He swept them all," one Republican governor said expansively (though several Midwestern Republicans said they were not swept). Carl Humelsine's detailed exposition of the careful procedures of State's loyalty screening impressed them most Afterward, outspoken Jim Duff told Humelsine: "I want you to know that I am for you and that I will support you in your defense against charges that have been made against your department even if it costs me the election this fall...