Word: bushfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran of Anderson's lists by now). Among the new ones: Ambassador to Argentina James Bruce; Winthrop Brown, chief of the State Department's Division of Commercial Policy; Harry C. Westphal, secretary to South Dakota's Republican Senator and Agriculture Committeeman Harlan J. Bushfield...
While Republicans blinked and Democrats grinned, there came another blast. South Dakota's ultra-conservative Republican Senator Harlan J. Bushfield bounced up to declare, "The leaders of Congress are in confusion among themselves. . . . We have failed in everything which we promised the voters. ... I predict that unless the Republicans come alive . . . . they will fail again when the next election comes around...
...issue of religion, which has a way of backfiring, was touched only lightly. But new attacks on Williams as a leftist with no special qualifications for the job came from Mississippi's Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo, from Ohio's Taft, from South Dakota's Bushfield, many another...
Harlan J. Bushfield, 60, South Dakota, a conservative machine politician who once proposed a "National Debt Week" for citizens to reflect on New Deal spending, hoped in 1940 to run for Vice President behind Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. As Governor since 1939, hulking Harlan Bushfield has been noted chiefly for his economies...
...eleven shoe and seems, they say, "even larger than she is." With a peaches-&-cream complexion, a talent for mordant remarks, and a zest for riding the biggest horses available, Olive takes both conservatism and a thirst for reform from her Norse Lutheran heritage. Olive's attack on Bushfield is double-barreled. She pounds away with stories of past investigations of State G.O.P. funds, hammers at a current trial of three of Bushfield's State officers for embezzlement. Then she attacks his economy record: "He asks for advancement after . . . an administration whose only achievement has been...