Word: capehart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, Republicans and Democrats snarled at each other across the Amerasia case like nervous football teams determined to fight it out through the line if it took all election season. Indiana's Homer Capehart, backed by 20 other Republican Senators, demanded that the Senate Judiciary Committee open a brand-new, full-dress investigation of the Justice Department's handling of the case in 1945. Maryland's long-jawed Millard Tydings promptly accused Capehart's team of being offside. Tydings' own special Foreign Relations subcommittee was already looking into Amerasia, he said; the Capehart resolution amounted...
...next day, Indiana's Senator Homer E. Capehart nosed into an $18.5 million RFC loan granted to Carthage Hydrocol, Inc. for construction of a synthetic gasoline plant and pipeline in Texas. Republican Stalwart Capehart found that Hydrocol's president is none other than G.O.P. National Chairman Guy George Gabrielson. Passing over the fact that RFC's loan to Hydrocol was more than matched by $21.5 million in new private capital, Capehart snapped: "I don't care whether the name is Smith, Jones or Gabrielson. They ought to practice what they preach. Do they believe...
...Missouri, Republicans hoped that the Binaggio murder would help out Forrest Donnell, who was opposed by Truman-blessed Emery Allison. But Republicans were uneasy about the safety of Indiana's Capehart and Wisconsin's Wiley, frankly worried about Iowa's Hickenlooper and Colorado's Eugene Millikin...
...presidential train winds through Maryland, where Millard Tydings is gunning for re-election to the Senate; Pennsylvania, where Democratic Senate Whip Francis Myers faces a stiff fight against Republican Governor James Duff; Ohio, where the President would love to kayo Senator Bob Taft; Indiana, where Republican Homer Capehart is up for reelection; and Illinois, where Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas has to step fast to be sure of another term. If time and disposition permit, there will probably be side excursions, including a lunge into Wisconsin for a few quick jabs at Republican Alexander Wiley...