The new Senate, on paper, looked like a definite improvement over the old. Not only had some much-thumbed old political jacks been thrown into the discard (see below); among the 17 Republicans and five Democrats newly elected there were many practiced legislators, some right-&-left bowers.
The U.S. public recognized a few. Handsome Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts had been a G.O.P. Senator before he went overseas in the Army. Alabama's able John J. Sparkman was Democratic whip of the last House. The white-thatched, placid face of Ohio's John Bricker—who had unseated down-the-line...
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