Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Owen Brewster (R-Malne) will lead off this fall's Law School Forum program in a discussion entitled. "A New Place for Japan," scheduled for Friday, October 26. The forum committee plans nine fora in the 1951-52 series...
...released a 52-page report giving their conclusions. The signers were New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, New Jersey's Alexander Smith, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper, California's William Knowland, Washington's Harry P. Cain, Maine's Owen Brewster and Vermont's Ralph Flanders. Their findings...
Secretary Acheson, testifying before Connally's Foreign Relations Committee, seemed to be submitting to questions rather than trying to sell his program. He sidestepped battle with his Republican critics, sometimes curtly, sometimes indifferently. Maine's Owen Brewster tried to provoke him with a line of questioning about State's present China policy. Acheson said that he contemplated making no changes. "You are going to let the dust settle?" Brewster goaded. "If you wish to put it that way," Acheson wearily retorted...
...make it. G.O.P. Senators on the committee were seriously divided among themselves on Far Eastern policy, and could not even be gotten together to plan a coordinated attack. The Republican policy committee hastily sent over two men to think up questions and feed them to Maine's Owen Brewster. They were not enough. The plain fact was that, after years of criticizing U.S. China policy, Republicans had apparently not bothered to prepare for their biggest day in court...
...Alexander Wiley said to him: "You have had a long chore, sir, and have done a grand job for yourself, I would say, with that mind of yours. Keeping everything in it is a remarkable accomplishment." Some seemed bedazzled by the intricacy of his argument. Maine's Owen Brewster asked for a recess to give him more time to prepare, pleading: "I am somewhat overawed with the responsibility of even questioning the Secretary [with his] very great intelligence and competence in his field...