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...himself added a kind of insult to the Ikemen's political injuries. Asked at his news conference whether he would go over the heads of the budget-cutting Senate Republican leadership-California's Bill Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges-to work with the Eisenhower Republicans who are fighting for his program, Ike left his hard-pressed Capitol Hill defenders sadly disappointed: "I don't see how it is possible for any President to work with . . . the whole Republican group except through their elected leadership. This doesn't mean that in special cases...
...raising dinner in Omaha, he called on the U.S. to help Communist Poland maintain its independence by granting the Poles' request for $200 million in U.S. agricultural surpluses (TIME, March 25). And in making his point, Democrat Kennedy took on the argument advanced by Senate Republican Leader Bill Knowland that such aid might strengthen the Communist bloc...
...President of the U.S. a "stinking hypocrite" (see PRESS) . . . In Colorado, G.O.P. State Chairman Edgar Elliff, asked by a newsman to assess the Eisenhower popularity, replied scornfully: "Which Eisenhower do you mean-Dwight or Edgar?" . . . And with the smiling approval of other Republican Senate bigwigs, Minority Leader William Knowland baited the Republican President by regularly upping the amount by which he thought the Eisenhower budget should be cut (Bill's latest figure: $3 billion...
...effect of the new look was to huddle Congress' Eisenhower Republicans into an uncomfortable minority. Democrats found themselves aligned with conservative "1890" Republicans and wondered apprehensively whether they should try to outbid Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, who is demanding a $3 billion budget cut and has turned on the school bill (see EDUCATION) that he twice before supported...
...Democratic Senator Byrd: "This is the most irresponsible budget submitted in my day." He urged that the budget be chopped back to 1955's level of $64 billion; then both corporate and income taxes could be reduced by about $6.3 billion. Added California's Senate Minority Leader Knowland: if the Administration is spendthrift, Congress is not. The lawmakers, predicted Knowland, will trim the budget by more than $3 billion...