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"Not a Damn Thing." But the President's pleas, including a public statement issued on the day the House was to vote on foreign-aid appropriations, seemed only to irritate the Democratic leadership of the House. Said Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, leader of the forces aiming...
Republican Senators who had gone through the long, bone-tiring fight for a strong bill seemed unwilling to do it again. Minority Leader William Knowland frankly wanted the House to accept the weak bill. New York's Republican Jacob Javits, who has made a political career out of civil...
Surprise package was John O'Rourke himself. Sporting a huge diamond ring and a pink, craggy face, O'Rourke, 57, onetime ready-fisted dock worker, had led the committee to feel that he might cooperate with the investigators. He had been declared winner of the contested election, was...
"It seems," intoned Senator John Mc-Clellan sternly, "that in this dragnet procedure we have caught an assortment of man-eating sharks." It was indeed as forbidding a catch of fish as John McClellan's Senate labor rackets investigating committee has yet snared. One by one last week'...
Bowing to the long-standing demands of the powerful U.S. independent oil producers, President Eisenhower last week told big oil companies to slash crude-oil imports "voluntarily" to a level 10% below their average imports from 1954 to 1956. This would cut current U.S. imports of foreign oil by about...