THE CONGRESS: A Big Job for a Big Man

THE CONGRESS Job for a Big Man

One of the men who can do most to help or hamper the progress of U.S. defense is the chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Last week the Senate's No. i clown got the job.

The Senate steering committee had stalled about filling the job left vacant by the death of Morris Sheppard of Texas for several weeks, casting a longing eye toward Military Affairs' next to senior member, Elbert Duncan Thomas of Utah, who Is an all-out-aid-to-Britain man and an industrious student of military needs....

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