National Affairs: The Cowboy and the Lily

Like a farce with a dull first act, Session III of the 76th Congress took ten weeks to get funny. But last week no one with an eye for high & low comedy could complain, as 96 good men & true in the U. S. Senate discussed purity in politics.

Prologue. The man who started it was Carl Atwood Hatch, 50, of Clovis, New Mexico, a mild, drawling little man who walks as if he missed his horse. Mr. Hatch's passion is to put honor, good faith and probity into politics. In debate Mr. Hatch...

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