Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase gives them the right to bump one Republican off a major committee. Possible choice: Wisconsin's noisy Joe McCarthy off the Appropriations Committee, where he can make trouble on State Department requests for money. Probable Republican choice to succeed Vandenberg on the powerful Foreign Relations Committee: Owen Brewster of Maine, no isolationist but an outspoken enemy of the Administration and of Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...Senator Brewster, Senator McCarran, and the others who plumped for economic aid to France, insisted that American dollars would soften the Caudillo's heart and make him a valuable ally against Communism, Spain, it was argued, is crucial as a military base and as a source of military power and strategic materials...
This should be too much even for the strong stomachs of Messrs. Brewster and McCarran. Even if they are impervious to Franco's corruption, to his refusals to put through any kind of democratic reform, to his campaign against the "freemasonry, Protestantism, and prostitution" being smuggled into Spain through Gibralter, their laissez-faire souls should rebel against his refusal to cooperate on strategic materials. Even new ambassador Stanton Griffls, who calls Franco "a perfect gentleman," should be feeling rather ashamed about his mission of "friendship" to Spain...
Next came Arkansas' Fulbright, who also talked of unity-and took care not to praise Dean Acheson. At one point, Maine's Republican Owen Brewster interrupted Fulbright to ask: "Would the Senator . . . challenge the proposition that a very substantial majority of the [Democrats] have privately and repeatedly expressed the opinion that a change in the office of Secretary of State is now wise and desirable...
...produced in Hollywood, but it is done on film and costs less than such $20,000-and-up New York productions as Philco Playhouse, Robert Montgomery Presents and Ford Theater, Fireside actors are relatively unknown and scripts are picked impartially from obscure free-lance writers and the classics. Producer Brewster Morgan and German-born Director Frank (Maedchen in Uniform) Wisbar will try almost anything. They have retold the plot of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in 30 minutes and a modern setting, and turned Thomas Hardy's The Three Strangers into a western...