National Affairs: A Seat in the Senate?

A seat on the New York Stock Exchange, good for a lifetime, costs about $475,000. A very comfortable chair of special learning at a University can be endowed with $100,000. A seat at the Metropolitan Opera for six seasons can be had for $1,188. What is a fair and equitable price to pay, in a political campaign, for a seat in the U. S. Senate, good for six years?

Last week Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick appeared before the Senate Campaign Expenditure Committee to reveal that she had spent, almost entirely out of her own...

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