Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tons of dried milk, 17,000 tons of butter, 89,000 tons of cheese. But politicos from dairy-farm states predictably joined Republican Burdick in bipartisan booing at Benson's announcement. ''A shocking injustice!" cried Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire. "A mistake!" snapped Vermont Republican George Aiken, an old Benson defender. Said Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey: "Mr. Benson has taken the place of Scrooge...
...Aiken Condemns Stevenson Appointment...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17--Senator George Aiken (R-Vt.) said today it is "absurd" to believe the Eisenhower administration can win real bipartisan cooperation in international affairs by inviting Adlai E. Stevenson to become an adviser...
...Aiken, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "I don't know what President Eisenhower expects to gain by inviting Stevenson in." "If it is intended as a demonstration of unity, it isn't going to work," Aiken noted...
...Larson's book was also his ruination. Old Guard congressional Republicans got sore at being classified as fossils. Modern Republicans such as Vermont's Senator George Aiken disliked having a nonpolitician draw a line across the G.O.P.; so did the Republican National Committee. The Democrats got riled at Larson's professional stump speeches ("Throughout the New and Fair Deals, this country was in the grip of a somewhat alien philosophy, imported from Europe"), and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson personally took on the task of cutting the hapless Larson to pieces. Thus, when Larson...