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Bloodless Coo. The day before the bipartisanship meeting, the President had held an even longer session with congressional Republicans to give a yes answer to another question: Can the U.S. Government function when the President's party is split? In fashioning next year's domestic program for Congress, the possibilities for friction had seemed greater than at the foreign-policy meeting. But Senate Leader William Knowland intoned that the talks had been "constructive and harmonious." Colorado's Senator Eugene Millikin reported that the whole affair was "like the cooing of doves...
...Tammany tepee. Carmine took to hanging around the club, was given some errands to run, moved up to precinct captain and deputy sheriff under Sheriff Daniel E. Finn-whose family had ruled the First Assembly District West for more than 70 years. In 1939, taking advantage of a factional split in the district, De Sapio ran against Finn for district leader. He won-but Tammany Hall refused to recognize him. Insurgent De Sapio and his followers picketed Tammany Hall. When De Sapio's men tried to argue their case at a Tammany meeting, the lights were promptly switched...
...ISSUE, WHICH STATED: "EVEN ON THE DAY LAST WEEK WHEN THE DOW-JONES AVERAGE ROSE THE MOST, ALMOST HALF OF THE 1,271 STOCKS TRADED SHOWED LOSSES, AND A FEW, E.G., BELL AIRCRAFT . . . REGISTERED LOWS FOR THE YEAR." YOU MISSED THE FACT THAT BELL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION SPLIT ITS STOCK TWO-FOR-ONE ON NOV. 3, AND THE LOW FOR THE YEAR, ADJUSTED FOR THE STOCK...
...SPLIT...
...McCarthy's attack, that he would not engage in personal quarrels. What effect would a McCarthyite third party have on the Republican Party? Said Ike: "I have no crystal ball." He turned deadly serious and thumped the desk for emphasis as he continued: "If people want to split off ... that will have to be their business . . . The great mass of the people of the U.S. want intelligent, and what I would call a group of progressive moderates handling their business, and that is exactly what I am working...