For the Record

The big fight at the Democratic national convention, it now appears, will be over the number two spot. Here’s how the Democratic possibilities for the Vice-Presidency stack up. Mayor Robert Wagner: a New Yorker, labor wants him, he is a Catholic. Senator Estes Kefauver: he has a fervent but not dominating following. Senator Humphrey of Minnesota: perhaps too close geographically to Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Governor Lausche: a Catholic. Senator John Kennedy: a Catholic. Governor Clement of Kentucky: little known outside his own state, politically, he belongs to the Southern conservative wing of the party, a fact which would alienate the leaders of the Northern wing…. On July 25 the struggle for the right to work without joining and paying tribute to a labor union met with another reverse. The Texas Supreme Court, having refused to act in the case of Sandsberry et al. V. the operating railway unions until the Supreme Court had decided the Hanson case (NATIONAL REVIEW, June 13) , handed down a decision upholding the union shop. Three associate justices dissented… Harold Stassen was introduced at a National Press Club luncheon the other day as “the only man who ever got a license from the President of the United States to go hunting for the Vice-President for thirty days.”… In the two years since the publication of the recommendations of the Hoover Commission, the average senator has received from his constituents a total of eighteen letters, half of them for adoption, half of them against. At stake: five and one-half billion dollars per year…. Before adjourning, Congress served notice on the Administration, the nation and the world that it is unalterably opposed to the admission of Red China into the United Nations. Votes against UN representation for the Peiping regime were 391 to 0 in the House ; 86 to 0 in the Senate.

The Agriculture Department reports that over 8,000,000 acres of crop lands will be retired this year under the soil bank program. The estimated cost is 165 million dollars…. The consumer price index for June was the highest on record. It reached 116.2, up.8 over May. The Federal Reserve Board meanwhile reported that about 63 per cent of American families have debts of some kind. |And of these, 45 per cent make regular installment payments…. Any increase in Suez Canal tolls can be expected to affect rubber, tin and manganese prices in this country. Nearly 90 per cent of the natural rubber used in American industry, 60 per cent of the tin, and 35 per cent of the manganese, comes through the Suez Canal.

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The big fight at the Democratic national convention, it now appears, will be over the number two spot. Here’s how the Democratic possibilities for the Vice-Presidency stack up. Mayor Robert Wagner: a New Yorker, labor wants him, he is a Catholic. Senator Estes Kefauver: he has a fervent but not dominating following. Senator Humphrey of Minnesota: perhaps too close geographically to Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Governor Lausche: a Catholic. Senator John Kennedy: a Catholic. Governor Clement of Kentucky: little known outside his own state, politically, he belongs to the Southern conservative wing of the party, a fact which would alienate the leaders of the Northern wing…. On July 25 the struggle for the right to work without joining and paying tribute to a labor union met with another reverse. The Texas Supreme Court, having refused to act in the case of Sandsberry et al. V. the operating railway unions until the Supreme Court had decided the Hanson case (NATIONAL REVIEW, June 13) , handed down a decision upholding the union shop. Three associate justices dissented… Harold Stassen was introduced at a National Press Club luncheon the other day as “the only man who ever got a license from the President of the United States to go hunting for the Vice-President for thirty days.”… In the two years since the publication of the recommendations of the Hoover Commission, the average senator has received from his constituents a total of eighteen letters, half of them for adoption, half of them against. At stake: five and one-half billion dollars per year…. Before adjourning, Congress served notice on the Administration, the nation and the world that it is unalterably opposed to the admission of Red China into the United Nations. Votes against UN representation for the Peiping regime were 391 to 0 in the House ; 86 to 0 in the Senate.

The Agriculture Department reports that over 8,000,000 acres of crop lands will be retired this year under the soil bank program. The estimated cost is 165 million dollars…. The consumer price index for June was the highest on record. It reached 116.2, up.8 over May. The Federal Reserve Board meanwhile reported that about 63 per cent of American families have debts of some kind. |And of these, 45 per cent make regular installment payments…. Any increase in Suez Canal tolls can be expected to affect rubber, tin and manganese prices in this country. Nearly 90 per cent of the natural rubber used in American industry, 60 per cent of the tin, and 35 per cent of the manganese, comes through the Suez Canal.