Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contenders in the two top races: Democrat Abe Ribicoff, 52, and Republican Horace Seely-Brown Jr., 54. running for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Prescott Bush; and Democratic Governor John Dempsey, 47, who is challenged by Republican John Alsop...
...Cuba "indicate strongly that the Monroe Doctrine has recently been reinterpreted with major omissions." In the Senate debate on the Administration request for stand-by authority to call up 150,000 reservists, Republicans urged amendments to prod the President into taking action against Castro. Connecticut's Prescott Bush offered an amendment declaring that the U.S. "has the right and obligation" to end Communist domination of Cuba. His amendment, said Bush, would put Russia on notice "that the Monroe Doctrine is not dead, but remains an integral part of American foreign policy and will be en forced" Iowa...
...Outpouring. Testimonials to the quality of Dirksen's leadership come from both sides of the Senate aisle and from nearly all factions within both par ties. Just recently, Connecticut's middle-roading Republican Senator Prescott Bush, who voted against Dirksen for minority leader four years ago, stood up to speak to the Senate. Bush is retiring from the Senate after this year, and he wanted to pay tribute to Dirksen. "He is," said Bush, "one of the very few men in the Senate who actually make votes when they speak on an important issue...
This hearing is adjourned subject to the call of the chair." At that, the roof went off. Two Republican subcommittee members, Connecticut's Prescott Bush and Maryland...
...Bush demanded a subcommittee vote on adjournment; Symington insisted firmly that he had a right to adjourn the subcommittee on his own. George Humphrey tried to get in a word: "Mr. Chairman . . ." Symington's reply dripped with sarcasm : " 'Senator' Humphrey would like to say something." Humphrey: Before you adjourn this, and I am very complimented at being called Senator Humphrey, but that is not the fact...