Word: capehart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, will not reappear before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to answer charges by Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) that he had "praised Communism" and had "discredited the American economy...
...Capehart Denies Implications...
...Margaret Chase Smith has been seen on Edward R. Murrow's television program as she traipsed around the globe-e.g., to Formosa, India, Spain. A pixy TV program called Masquerade Party has achieved a clown's gallery of Senators, e.g., Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart came with a Roman toga draped around his aldermanic figure, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt and his wife appeared as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, Alabama's Democratic Senator John Sparkman (his party's 1952 nominee for Vice President) showed up disguised...
...becoming a monopoly? Answered Curtice: "We have to keep aggressively competitive in all areas in order to keep sure of maintaining even our position." To show what he meant, Curtice predicted that by 1962 auto registrations will rise 30%, with a gross national product of $500 billion. Then Capehart spoke up again. The line of questioning, it seemed to him, had nothing to do with the stock market. Snapped Fulbright: "You have no right continually to criticize my questions." But Capehart disagreed. "I am going to continue to do so because I am thoroughly-100%-convinced that the purpose...
Humphrey was joined by Indiana's Republican Homer Capehart, who had been needling Fulbright from the beginning. Said Capehart: "The series of questions that we have had in this committee have all tended to be on the negative side, [and have tended] to prove that stock prices are too high and that maybe we are just a few steps behind a crash such as we had in 1929." Said Fulbright: "It is very inappropriate to engage in bickering with you before this audience." Replied Capehart: "You started it ... You . . . stick to your knitting and ask [your] questions." Fulbright flushed...