National Affairs: Work Done

Last week the Senate also:

¶ Confirmed the appointments of: 1) Pennsylvania’s Congressman John W. Murphy, Democratic member of the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee (which finished hearings last week after taking more than 8,500,000 words of testimony), as U.S. District Judge for middle Pennsylvania; 2) Harvard Law School Dean James M. Landis, Roosevelt brain-truster, former head of SEC and OCD, to membership on the Civil Aeronautics Board. CJ Received from the Banking Committee a bill to raise the price of silver from 71¢ to $1.29 an ounce within two years.

The House:

¶ Wasted one afternoon in filibuster and six quorum calls to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor.

¶ Passed stripped-down appropriations for the Coast Guard ($114 million) and the Navy ($4.6 billion) for the next fiscal year.

¶ Appointed a five-man committee headed by Missouri’s Congressman Roger C. Slaughter (from Harry Truman’s district) to continue investigation of surplus property disposal.