Scouting Eisenhower Talk and Labor Plot in 1952 Figures
The piece outlines Congressman Hugh Scott’s bold Paris meeting with General Eisenhower about a GOP draft nomination. It also details behind the scenes A F of L moves to dump Truman, patch Taft-Hartley, and set a Taft deal, plus John L. Lewis and Harry Bridges plotting a Los Angeles rally timed with Truman events.
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Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Scott
General Eisenhower
Ike
Paris
Eisenhower
White House
A. F. of L
San Francisco
Truman
Sen
Robert Alphonso Taft
A. F. of L. High Command
Sam Gompers
Danny Bill Hutcheson
Carpenters Union
GOP
George Meany
Dave Beck
Teamster Union
Democrats
Labor
Taft
Harry Truman
Senate
Building Trades
Hutcheson
Carpenters
John L. Lewis
Harry Bridges
CIO
Bridges
Los Angeles
Los Angeles. Chief Speaker At the Labor Rally Would Be Doughty
John L
Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Defense Budget Credit Sparks Senate Conversation
Wyoming Senator O Mahoney pressed Assistant Secretary Rosenberg by phone about the Defense Department not getting enough credit for crafting the 60 billion dollar defense budget. Congress soon backed a Rodino sponsored resolution involving the release of a Czechoslovakian American prisoner.
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O’mahoney
Wyoming
Anne Rosenberg
Defense Department
Congress
P. Peter Rodino
New Jersey
Czechoslovakia
Farm Loans Rise as Midwest Banks Report Strains
A survey of rural bankers across the Midwest shows higher farm borrowing this year as prices fall and costs rise. Machinery credit use climbs and operating costs jump, with fertilizer and wages up, prompting talk of a government price support push.
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Great Midwest
Kentland
Ind
South Dakota
Iowa
Dover, Minn
F.C.B. Chicago
Minnesota
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Defense Production Forecast for Tanks and Planes
Manly Fleischmann, defense production administrator, predicts the nation can soon produce 30 000 tanks and 50 000 planes annually plus strategic stockpiles to cover a year of total war. He spoke at the 70th AFL convention in San Francisco noting steel and aluminum capacity gains and increased electric power.
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Manly Fleischmann
American Federation of Labor
San Francisco
United States
First Session of 82nd Congress Sets Probes Record
The first session may earn the nickname private eye Congress for a record number of investigations and high spending on probes. By mid September 140 bills passed and over 130 probes were noted, with Senate and House committees spending about 2.1 million dollars and total probes approaching five million if all costs are counted.
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House-Senate Conference Committee
House
Senate
82Nd Congress
Congress
Congressional Quarterly
Congressional probe expense totals in 80th 81st sessions
The 80th Congress spent 3,339,000 on special probes across both sessions while the 81st spent 2,125,000. Notable allocations include Kefauver 115,000 for expenses Pat McCarran 97,000 naturalization probe 85,000 internal security, Murray 125,000 labor welfare, Sparkman 50,000 small business, Fulbright 30,000 FRF probe, HUAC 200,000 judiciary 75,000 Patman 100,000 small business, executive dept expenditures 210,000 and food chemicals 75,000.
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80Th
81St
Kefauver Interstate Crime Committee
Pat McCarran
John Sparkmen
Senate
Fulbright
FRF
House un-American Activities Committee
House Judiciary Committee
Wright Patman
Executive Department
Reasons for Probes and Their Political Effects
The column argues probes aim to inform law makers the public and oversight duties but mostly yield political gain. It cites a crime probe unlikely to produce laws and notes a proposed gambling tax of about 2 billion dollars as a Senate possibility. It says probes awaken public awareness yet fade as voters forget, letting parties use the issue for political gain.
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Senate
Congress
Boyle and Gabrielson Charged in RFC Loan Influence Case
William Boyle Jr the Democratic national chairman and Guy Gabrielson the GOP national chairman face charges of influence peddling over a RFC loan for a client. Both deny any wrongdoing and say they acted within the law.
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William Boyle, Jr
Guy Gabrielson
GOP
Small Defense Plant Administration Created Then Killed
The text notes funds for small business under defense restrictions spurred calls for a special defense agency. It states the small defense plant administration was created but the House Appropriations Committee blocked its operations by withholding funds.
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Small Defense Plant Administration
House Appropriations Committee
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ION
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Arkansas
T. M. Mabry
Horatio
American Bird Co
Chicago
Illinois
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