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Recurring reflection on the 49 senators who voted against confirmation of Admiral Strauss as Secretary of Commerce: Would they have confirmed J. Robert Oppenheimer by the same vote?… William Knowland was tagged “the Senator from Formosa” by the Communist press in this country. California’s new Senator Clair Engle now is referred to in some echelons of the State Department as the “Senator from Peiping.”… Senator Byrd, on the Manion Forum of the Air, reported that our annual deficit this year (federal, state and local) will run between $15 and $20 billion.

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Recurring reflection on the 49 senators who voted against confirmation of Admiral Strauss as Secretary of Commerce: Would they have confirmed J. Robert Oppenheimer by the same vote?… William Knowland was tagged “the Senator from Formosa” by the Communist press in this country. California’s new Senator Clair Engle now is referred to in some echelons of the State Department as the “Senator from Peiping.”… Senator Byrd, on the Manion Forum of the Air, reported that our annual deficit this year (federal, state and local) will run between $15 and $20 billion.