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...down to work. Thursday morning, House and Senate steering committees met. Thursday afternoon, Congressman Joe Martin and Senator Bob Taft made statements to the press. Thursday evening, House and Senate committeemen dined at the Carlton and chewed the fat. Friday morning, New York's busy, noisy John Taber, who will head the Appropriations Committee, met the press. The same morning, Taft and the Senate steering committee went into another conference. Friday noon, all hands got together at lunch. Friday afternoon, Senators huddled again. Taft made another statement to the press; so did Maine's Senator Wallace White. Washington...
...with a new sense of responsibility Joe looked over the men who would run the committees in his House. Were the Republicans in line for the jobs the best the party had? There was, for instance, John Taber of New York, due to head up Appropriations. Bull-tongued John Taber, blaring away in a speech on wage-hour amendments in 1940, had restored the hearing in the deaf ear of the late Congressman Leonard W. Schuetz of Illinois. Schuetz had been deaf since birth. The effect, Schuetz said at the time, made him dizzy. "I had spent thousands of dollars...
...Taber and Knutson had been merely obstructionists when their party was in the minority. Would responsibility sober them up? These were things for Joe Martin to worry about. But Joe does not worry much. He knows how to handle his colleagues. He also knows that he will have some excellent committee chairmen (Jesse Wolcott of Michigan, Charles Eaton of New Jersey, et a/.) and that he will have some good new blood in the House. One of the freshmen, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge, put the problem of the Republicans...
Other Republicans who would step into House chairmanships: Appropriations-New York's arch-conservative John Taber, loudmouthed, long-winded but an expert on government finance; Ways & Means-Minnesota's bullet-headed Harold Knutson, small-minded and vindictive, who believes that the graduated income tax and the excess profits tax are the devil's work; Foreign Affairs-New Jersey's white-haired Charles A. Eaton, delegate to the San Francisco Conference which set up U.N.; Banking & Currency-Michigan...
...nine-story Overseas Division in Manhattan. The skeptical Congressmen went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity of the war is run with as little waste." Even New York's Roosevelt-baiting John Taber, No. 1 congressional critic of OWI, supported the boost in appropriations. Most impressive display to Republicans: a copy of a Turkish newspaper, containing a smashing big picture and full biography of Tom Dewey, which the OWI had sent to the paper...